Re: Re: Re: interface with USB and perl

ok. I know how to copy/erase stuff from a FS.
What I don't 'know' (never used it) is how USB works. From what I seem to understand, USB is handled by the kernel, and I can access a device just as an ordinary FS if there is a kernel driver for that device, is that correct ?
If so, it all boils down to finding the driver... or writing my own ( but I might "peter plus haut que mon cul" as we say in France :-) )

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Re: Re: Re: Re: interface with USB and perl by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 15, 2003 at 13:13 UTC
Just for completeness, if somebody stumbles onto this thread via a search engine - I did some research and found the following links that seem to be relevant : http://manila.mems.rice.edu/behr/activities/minidisc/ - using Sony NetMD on the Apple / Mac OS X via emulators and directly http://gargoyles.monochromatic.net/pipermail/netmd-dev/2002-June/000212.html - Some generic NetMD discussion which highlights possible problems. `perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ; # The $d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider ($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new #in the HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' # web` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: interface with USB and perl by Sihal (Pilgrim) on Jan 15, 2003 at 14:15 UTC
That's very cool indeed. I'm at work so no time to look deeply, but I will. I was talking with a colleague today, and we might start to work on the subject in a serious way, if it seems feasible (if we can get enough doc. about our minidiscs and stuff)	[reply]