in reply to Help adding STX and ETX to data string in Perl
If you are going to send this message across a serial link, you should consider adding a checksum or CRC-16. Also, if you send a preamble of SYN characters, the protocol can be made to recover from mangled messages. I've used this many times across serial links.
James
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