Re: serial communication with tcl

Ralf Fassel wrote, On 28.02.2008 19:45:
* grp62 <grp62@xxxxxxxx>
| bad option "-mode": should be one of -blocking, -buffering, -
| buffersize, -encoding, -eofchar, or -
| translation
| while
| executing
| "fconfigure $serial -mode "115200,n,8,1" "

That sounds like TCL did not recognize /dev/ttyS0 as a serial port but
as a 'real' file. Can you confirm that /dev/ttyS0 is indeed the
correct pathname to the port on that platform?

R'

If I recall correctly, there are Linux distribution with incorrectly configured Tcl.
You should try to recompile Tcl.
.

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