For this sort of application you are never going to have to "learn USB" in order to drive a serial port. The driver stack for the USB device isolates you from having to know anything about the USB layer - you simply use the usual OS provided API for the device. In the current case, so long as you are using the Windows provided serial API (which, as far as I know Win32::SerialPort does), it really doesn't matter if you use a serial port provided on the computer's mother board, or on an ISA card, or by a PCMCIA card or as a USB/serial dongle. The hard wired COM1 constrain however will cause you grief real quick!

Using the module which (I presume) uses the Windows serial API allows any of the three options you've suggested without any code changes aside from configuration issues such as the COM port used.

True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re^3: Win32::SerialPort v. New computers by GrandFather
in thread Win32::SerialPort v. New computers by hennesse

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