Re: larger issue (Re: Linux install misses Tk)

["H. Todd Chapman" <htchapma@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can the Pilot be communicated with by sending and receiving text to the
serial device file? I wrote a driver for a serial robot in Java by opening
/dev/cua0 and just treating it like a text file. This limited the
portability of the driver to system with Unix-like device files.

-Todd

On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Keith Edwards wrote:

> I, for one, would *love* to see PilotManager written in Java.  For one
> thing it would give me a consistent UI for syncing on both the PC and
> on the Sun.  Second, I think we'd encourage more conduit development
> if conduits could be written in Java rather than Perl.
> 
> The major problem would seem to be the lack of serial port control in
> Java, which would require a bit of native code...
> 
> -keith
> 

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