I am trying to read data from a paging receiver which is connected to the serial port. Here is the problem, I can only read/store the first 14 characters that are sent to the device. Here is part of my code: 
 
$ob->lookclear;    #clear the buffers
$ob->buffers(4096,4096); #read, write 
sleep 1;
until($return ne "")
{
   if (($return = $ob->input) ne "")
   {
      $ob->write ($return);
      print "return:$return a";
   }
   else
   {
     print "ERROR!! Did not receive a page yet!\n";
   }
}#end until
print "return is:$return";
undef $ob;

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Is there any way to store more than 14 characters in the variable. Also, any sample "serial port" code would be helpful. Thanks for your help, Jason

In reply to Reading data from the Serial Port by Anonymous Monk

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