On Thursday 21 March 2002 02:54 pm, Kevin Fisher wrote:

> Well, after a bit of sleuthing about I think that there may be a problem
> with the SerialPort plugin...but only in one direction.

What, you want to read too?

> 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.
>
> So, are there any thoughts on this?  I hope its not something as silly as
> me initializing the SerialPort wrong. :)

Well, it would help if we enabled the receiver. It worked when I put the 
initialization back to what it had been (why was this changed?):

$ cvs diff -uwb squeak/platforms/unix/plugins/SerialPlugin/sqUnixSerial.c
Index: squeak/platforms/unix/plugins/SerialPlugin/sqUnixSerial.c
===================================================================
RCS file: 
/cvsroot/squeak/squeak/platforms/unix/plugins/SerialPlugin/sqUnixSerial.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -w -b -r1.1.1.1 sqUnixSerial.c
--- squeak/platforms/unix/plugins/SerialPlugin/sqUnixSerial.c   24 Oct 2001 
23:14:15 -0000      1.1.1.1
+++ squeak/platforms/unix/plugins/SerialPlugin/sqUnixSerial.c   22 Mar 2002 
00:06:24 -0000
@@ -334,12 +334,12 @@
        /* tcflag_t c_oflag output modes */
        /* defaultTermios.c_oflag = 0; */
        /* tcflag_t c_cflag control modes */
-       /* defaultTermios.c_cflag = 0; */
+       defaultTermios.c_cflag = CREAD;
        /* tcflag_t c_lflag local modes */
        /* defaultTermios.c_lflag = 0; */
        /* cc_t c_cc[NCCS] control chars */
-       defaultTermios.c_cc[VTIME] = 5;
-       defaultTermios.c_cc[VMIN] = 1;
+       defaultTermios.c_cc[VTIME] = 0;
+       defaultTermios.c_cc[VMIN] = 0;

        success(true);
        return 1;
-- 
Ned Konz
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