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

I am in the middle of doing a project in Perl and am wondering if anyone has used the Device::SerialPort module for something other than modems? To be specific, I am trying to interface OMR Scanners with Perl. I was wondering if anyone had any examples of this, or even examples of reading back from serial port interfaces. I can open the port, write to it, but upon trying to read back, nothing comes up. I would appreciate any input. Thank you in advance.

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Re: Serial Port Programming
by DigitalKitty (Parson) on Jun 19, 2003 at 01:13 UTC
    Hi afra.

    Could you post the code you are working with currently? Maybe a few monks will see how it can be modified/improved.

    Thanks,

    -Katie