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From: tom_morrison@milacron.com (Tom Morrison)
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Subject: Serial Communications in "UNIX" apps.
Date: 9 Mar 1995 13:26:21 -0600
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Please don't flame me for asking a neophyte question, but I have a system 
running a flavor of UNIX System V on which I need to write a program that 
communicates via serial communications.  I've written a bit of C code on UNIX 
systems in the past but never involving communications.  I need some quick 
pointers on what it takes to setup a serial port (baud rate, stop bit, 
parity, etc.), send data out the port, watch for data to come in the port, 
and close the port when I'm finished.  Is this a straightforward and somewhat 
standard task in UNIX?  Are there particular man pages I should check for the 
functions required?  I'd greatly appreciate any short pointers someone might 
give me on the subject.

Thanks!
Tom_Morrison@Milacron.com