Re: OpenG Serial drivers

[Jim K. <jk...@ja...>]

Assuming that we are legally allowed do distribute the files, aggregating
them on OpenG.org is fine with me.  There are many mechanisms for doing
this.  I recommend that we create a forum topic and attach the documents
to the initial forum posting.  This will allow others to download the
documents and directly start a discussion.

If we are not allowed to (re)distribute the files, then I recommend
hyperlinking to the files, rather than posting them on OpenG.org.

Please wait to post any files to OpenG.org until we "go-live" with the new
discussion forums.  The new forums will provide a lot of nice features. 
We have only a few minor things to do before we are ready.

Regards,

-Jim



Martin Henz wrote:
>
> John Brohan wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your offer, I have LV 6.1 and I'd like to try to get some
>> royalty free Serial drivers written! How do I start?
>
>> Jim Kring wrote:
>>> John,
>>>
>>> OpenG is a great forum work on such a thing.  I can help you get a
>>> project
>>> started.
>>>
>
> Also, many thanks to you Jim.
>
> Let  me  explain,  what  we discussed on Info-LabVIEW and in
> private  mail.  (John,  please  reply  to  this  posting, if
> something is not correct.)
>
> At  first,  we  would like to collect some existing royality
> free   and   open  source  solutions  for  the  serial  port
> communication.
>
>
>   Scott  Hannahs  has  a  set  of  serial drivers maybe from
>   Albert  Geven.  These  VIs  are  interfacing to the legacy
>   serial  port  driver which officially exists until LabVIEW
>   6.1.
>
>   I  have  written  serial  port  interface  written for the
>   windows  operating  system.  All  mayor  functionality are
>   inside  a DLL which is written in C. The functions in this
>   DLL are handling the labview data types (error cluster, LV
>   strings,  LV  booleans...). Not all functions are actually
>   tested, so this interface is actually a beta version.
>
> As Scott Hannahs explained:
>
>> What is needed is a CROSS PLATFORM serial interface.
>
> So we need developers esp. for Mac OS and Linux.
>
> Anyway,  we  would  like to start this project. At first, we
> need  a  little piece space on a web or ftp server, where we
> can temporarily store the collected packages for our own use.
> I  can  also  store  this  on my own server, but I prefer to
> store the packeges on openg.org if this is possible.
>
> John  Brohan will stay in contact to Jim Kring who tells him
> how we can start the project on OpegG.org
>
> The  next  steps  would  be the examination of the collected
> packages. Then we'll decide what we exactly want to do.
>
>
> --
> Martin Henz
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