OT serial device "building blocks"

[Don Russell]

fredex wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 06:49:02PM -0800, Don Russell wrote:
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>>I have googled for this but am not finding anything suitable...
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>>I have an old modem (actually  modem component with a serial interface) 
>>that I want to use to monitor an analog phone line.
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>>I was hoping I could find some code like a "black box" that I can send 
>>commands (AT...) to, and it would give me the responses, and any 
>>asynchronous mesages, such as the RING message etc.
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>>Part of the problem is this little gizmo sends some data as ascii 
>>characters, other data is sent as binary. (FSK data for things like the 
>>caller id info, VMWI etc.)
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>>I would like to use Perl, or C, but was hoping I wouldn't have to 
>>re-invent the wheel to do the basic serial communications?
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>>Does anybody have any suggestions, or good serial comms references you 
>>can point me to?
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>>Thanks,
>>Don
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>It might be possible to hack up something using ckermit. Kermit has
>a fairly powerful programming language, obtuse though it may be.
>Check out the kermit web pages at http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/
>for lots of documentation. I'd think you've probably already got
>kermit on your box, or at least on the CDROMs, though I haven't
>personally checked FCx for its presence, it is present on RHEL.
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>Fred
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That's a good suggestion....I'll check it out.
Thanks. :-)
Don