Reading from serial ports on DOS/Windows

Kevinb has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings,
I have a data stream that I recieve on a com port, I want to save the data as files in dirs, so on.

how can I open a com port in perl?
any ideas?

thanks
Kevin

update (broquaint): title change (was Com ports)

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Re: Reading from serial ports on DOS/Windows by Necos (Friar) on May 01, 2003 at 17:46 UTC
If you go to search.cpan.org and look for 'serial', you should be able to find a module or two for the linux/bsd/*nix series of OSes. I believe there is also a Win32::Serial module or something similar. In the case of the non-Win32 world, make sure that you have permission to read/write from /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1 (or whichever serial port you're using). Hope that helps. Theodore Charles III Network Administrator Los Angeles Senior High email->secon_kun@hotmail.com `perl -e "map{print++$_}split//,Mdbnr;"`	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Reading from serial ports on DOS/Windows
by Necos (Friar) on May 01, 2003 at 17:46 UTC

perl -e "map{print++$_}split//,Mdbnr;"

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