Re: Sending test to COM1 under win98 from Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg20713] Re: Sending test to COM1 under win98 from Mathematica
- From: Eckhard Hennig <hennig at itwm.uni-kl.de>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 00:17:34 -0500
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Barthelet, Luc schrieb in Nachricht <803aj6$aos at smc.vnet.net>... > >I connected a plotter to my PC under Win98. It works fine, and I would like >to send strings I built with Mathematica to the plotter to control it. >I know how to built the string with all the commands, but how to send the >string to COM1 or LPT1 under Mathematica? You can use OpenWrite and Write as follows. plotter = OpenWrite["lpt1:"] Write[plotter, "blabla"] Close[plotter] Note that you will have to do some extra formatting to prevent the output from being enclosed in string quotes. -- Eckhard ----------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Eckhard Hennig mailto:hennig at itwm.uni-kl.de Institut fuer Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik e.V. (ITWM) Erwin-Schroedinger-Strasse, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Voice: +49-(0)631-205-3126 Fax: +49-(0)631-205-4139 http://www.itwm.uni-kl.de/as/employees/hennig.html ITWM - Makers of Analog Insydes for Mathematica http://www.itwm.uni-kl.de/as/products/ai -----------------------------------------------------------