Hey Monks

I'm trying to send commands and receive output from a modem through com1.

Unfortunately i have to do this through windows and so activeperl is what i am using.

this is my source code: 
                        open(PORT,"+>COM1") || die "Cant 
                        Open";
                        print PORT "at\n";
                        read(PORT,$buf,3);
                        print "$buf\n";
                        close(PORT);

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only problem is i'm getting garbage ourput >> If i read 400 characters instead of 3 my program code (source) is printed out on the screen along with garbage!!

Dont know what i'm doing wrong - please help!

Thanks a lot
G

20040218 Edit by Corion: Added formatting, fixed CODE tags

janitored by ybiC: Retitle from "COM1". One word node titles are a bad thing, very bad

In reply to Output garbage from serial port by Anonymous Monk

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