[LHA-misc] Newbie Linux Serial Port Question

[Lloyd F. <llo...@us...>]

I want to control an RS-232 device from my Linux box.  It uses a very 
simple serial protocol and ideally I would like to write to and read from 
it in a shell script.

Can anybody point me to some resources that explain how to access the 
serial port from shell scripts.  Eventually, I would like to do it in C or 
Perl but that is beyond my ability with those languages right now, any 
pointers to resources on this would be appreciated for future reference.

Also, can anybody recommend a simple terminal emulator to allow me to 
communicate with the box directly (something like hyperterm)?  I have tried 
mgetty and a couple of others but they all seem to want to configure a 
Hayes modem, and make connections to other machines, maybe I just need some 
help with configuration.

Thanks in advance.

Lloyd Ferguson
llo...@us...