I'm playing around in the serial (rs232) connected devices. I would like Perl to handle communication with the serial port. The builder of my electronics says the they have a nice .DLL (SSC-5.DLL) that will simplify my coding. So, if I understand things right Perl needs to call these functions or connect to the .DLL. (I have the .DLL in c\windows\system. Does anyone have some good examples of this time of code/call? advice? more doc below. 
Just three functions make up the Mini SSC DLL:

    * SSC_OPEN(port,baudrate) --Set up the comm port for the specified
+ baud rate, initialize memory for the DLL, and start a background thr
+ead (task) that will update the Mini SSC via the serial port.
    * SSC_MOVE(servo,position) --Move servo to position Note: the DLL 
+supports servo numbers 0-31 only.
    * SSC_CLOSE() --Shut down the background thread and close the seri
+al port.  

http://www.seetron.com/pdf/ssc2_mnl.pdf

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In reply to Perl calling my.DLL for serial port work. by kansaschuck

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