Perl problem - COM ports and filehandles

[Ashley Hindmarsh]

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> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 11:59:17 -0500
> From: Darren Harwood <darren.harwood at pb.com>
> Subject: Perl problem - COM ports and filehandles
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> good afternoon all,
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> i am trying to convert a perl script from *nix to win32.
> i am having difficulty with a couple of things:
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> 1) the unix script opens a filehandle to a device like this:
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> open my $pipe, '+<', '/dev/ttyUSB0' or die "Couldn't open pipe for reading
> and writing";
> my $mb = myDevice::myObject->new($pipe);
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I am not an expert in serial comms, but this looks like Unix systems
programming in Perl, which makes it inherently less portable.
There are USB abstractions in CPAN (Device::USB). See www.libusb.org.
If you can port your code to the abstraction in Unix *first*, maybe it will
be less painful to port to Win32.

   Ash