From: "Mike Fink" <mfinkNOSPAM AT us DOT ibm DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.msdos.programmer,microsoft.public.windowsnt.apps,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc
Subject: Re: Serial port / Windows NT question
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:06:06 -0500
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Yeah...I finally got UUCP compiled for CYGWIN and as able to run

cu -l COM1

to get a session going...but I can't echo to /dev/tty0 nor can I echo to
COM1 since that port is in use.

"Paul D.Smith" <pds AT x-dataconnection DOT com> wrote in message
news:3bd7c4ad$0$8512$ed9e5944 AT reading DOT news DOT pipex DOT net...
> Quick thought - is your COM port wired up to something and are all the
> hardware handshake lines wired correctly?  On PCs, you need to have the
> various lines at least dummied otherwise you often find that nothing comes
> out of the serial port.
>
> Paul DS.
>
> --
> Please remove the "x-" if replying to sender.
> "Mike Fink" <mfinkNOSPAM AT us DOT ibm DOT com> wrote in message
> news:9r7bk7$vpc$1 AT news DOT rchland DOT ibm DOT com...
> > I guess I lied about the /dev dir and the CYGWIN thing.  I reread the
> CYGWIN
> > FAQ and it said that if you do an ls on /dev you won't see anything, but
> > /dev/tty0 will show you a tty device.  That worked, and I even compiled
> the
> > UUCP package and got cu to run in the CYGWIN environment...BUT I had to
> run
> > cu -l COM1 and I still couldn't echo anything to /dev/tty0 or COM1 :-(
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> >
> > "Mike Fink" <mfinkNOSPAM AT us DOT ibm DOT com> wrote in message
> > news:9r77n6$vig$1 AT news DOT rchland DOT ibm DOT com...
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to port some PERL code from UNIX to Windows NT that makes
use
> > of
> > > the cu
> > > (UUCP) program.  This application currently drives a (VT100) console
> > > attached to another UNIX system.
> > >
> > > Today, we run something like:
> > > cu -ml tty0 > tty.log
> > > and then look at tty.log to see what's being sent to the console.  If
we
> > > want to write to the console, we simply print commands to /dev/tty0.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately on WinNT, I can't do something similar (at least with
the
> > > default setup).  In my fantasy world, I'd like to be able to run:
> > > copy COM1 tty.log
> > > echo "commands" > COM1
> > >
> > > Since I can only do one of those operations at a time, it won't work
> real
> > > well with our existing code.
> > >
> > > As an alternative, I installed the CYGWIN software in hopes that the
> /dev
> > > directory would give me similar functionality as our UNIX box.
However,
> > > after a vanilla install, no /dev directory was created.
> > >
> > > If anyone knows how I could get the /dev directory to show up in
CYGWIN
> or
> > > knows of a utility that would accomplish what I'm trying to do...I'd
> > > appreciate the help!
> > >
> > > I've read the FAQ and other docs and haven't seen an explanation as to
> why
> > > the /dev directory doesn't show and I have found some other utils like
> > > Hyperterm and Kermit-95...however, I was hoping to find something a
> little
> > > more primitive so we don't have to relearn another terminal scripting
> > > language and pay a licensing fee.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > If you want to respond to me directly, remove the NOSPAM from my email
> > > address.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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