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Re: Mathematica: access serial port?

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• Subject: [mg60482] Re: Mathematica: access serial port?
• From: "ragfield" <ragfield at gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:32:18 -0400 (EDT)
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Renan wrote:
> Is there any way to make a Mathematica program access the serial port?
> I need this to link to external electronical device.
> Maybe using MathLink (but I don't know programming in C/C++)?

A while back I created a package that does this.  After reading your
message I cleaned it up a little and contributed it to the Mathematica
InfoCenter <http://library.wolfram.com>, but it has not yet been
posted.  In the mean time you can download it here
<http://members.wolfram.com/schofield/SerialIO.zip>.

Unzip, place the folder in $[User]BaseDirectory/Applications, then load
with <<SerialIO`.  The SerialIO directory contains a simple example
notebook.  Currently it works with Mac OS X and Linux (x86).  I can add
support for Windows and possibly other Unix platforms at request.

Rob Raguet-Schofield
Wolfram Research