On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Ale[x] Garbino wrote:

> I'm done with all the PIC side of code, which I tought would be the hard part 
> to learn. Until I tried reading the serial port!
>
> I assumed a simple:
> ofstream serial ("/dev/ttyS1", ios::out | ios::app);
> if ( !serial.is_open() ) {
> cout << "Can't open serial port" << endl;
> return 0;
> }
> serial << "Hello";

use setserial to set the speed and set option low_latency for the used 
serial port.

then use stty clocal cread cs8 raw crtscts on that port, then run your 
program. C++ io also has buffering and such which you may want to turn 
off.

Most of these settings can be set using ioctls on linux.

Peter
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