Kevin,

I'm a bit confused. How can you run Win32 VMs on a Linux box? Is the
"SourceForge VM" you are using a Win32 or a Linux VM? If it's a Windows
VM it sounds like a pretty weird thing to me - AFAIK, there has been no
change in the serial port support code for ages so if it's works on one
Win32 VM and not the other I'm at a complete loss.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Kevin Fisher
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 11:54 PM
> To: squeak-dev
> Subject: [BUG][UNIX] SerialPort input problems
> 
> 
> Hi Folks:
> 
> Well, after a bit of sleuthing about I think that there may 
> be a problem
> with the SerialPort plugin...but only in one direction.
> 
> I strung my old dumb terminal onto  my PC and did some testing with a
> recently-built VM from sourceforge, vs an old 3.1 
> non-sourceforge VM built
> quite some time ago.
> 
> I inspected the following code:
> | s |
> 
> s _ SerialPort new.
> s baudRate: 9600; dataBits: 8.
> s inputFlowControlType: 2.
> s outputFlowControlType: 2.
> 
> In the inspect window, I set the port appropriately:
> self setPort: 1.
> 
> Now, in both VMs I performed the following test:
> 
> 1) First, I tried sending data out through the port:
> self nextPutAll: 'abcdabcd'.
> 
> This worked on both VMs...'abcdabcd' appears on my dumb 
> terminal screen.
> 
> 2) Now, I tried input by hitting the keys on my dumb terminal 
> and reading with:
> self readByteArray
> 
> With the old 3.1 VM, the keys I pressed on the dumb terminal were read
> by Squeak just fine...I got a nice ByteArray of my key presses.
> 
> However, with the sourceforge VM, I get nothing at all.
> 
> 
> I tested this with the Windows VM from Andreas' site (which is dated
> last spring) and it works fine...
> 
> So, are there any thoughts on this?  I hope its not something 
> as silly as 
> me initializing the SerialPort wrong. :)
> 
> Note that I'm running these VM's on the same 3.2gamma image, 
> on a Linux
> box running kernel 2.4.17 (compiled with GCC 2.95.3, etc).
> 
> 
>