Thread: Need help or info about serial port communication

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    Need help or info about serial port communication

    Hello all,

    I have to port some C code from windows to linux, this code will comunicate with a filter wheel on the serial port( this a simple step motor that moves the wheel around, to differant positions and has a home position.)

    I do not know how to do this, so some information on how I would go about this would be helpful. The windows source code was written in C.

    It first sets the device(number of filters,steps etc...)
    Opens the port
    Gets the port config
    Has 2 functions to write and read data to the port
    Closes the port
    Sets the filterposition and has a stepmotor function

    Any help from similiar serial port projects or code that I could view that would help with these 6 tasks would be most helpful.

    thanks a lot.

    David Walker

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