From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3A8C137A.FA86DB41@ducksworth.com> From: Sam Ducksworth MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] serial port programming References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:35:54 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 66518c76-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 thanks nigel, nigel@9fs.org wrote: > > I know the world of computing has forsworn manuals > for a variety of reasons, but it's a valid approach in > Plan 9. i have no problem with RTFMing. i was just RTFMing in the wrong place. being a unix guy i found myself searching for tty and term related man pages. > > So, read uart(3) first. It explains how to configure > a uart by opening the ctl file and writing simple > strings. You read and write it by reading and writing the > data file. As they used to say on a game show here, > "that's all there is to it". wow. it really is easy. > > If you need more, then try > > src con > > the source of the terminal emulator.