[WindyCity-pm] File transfer over serial ports.

[Jonathan Rockway]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 14:16 -0800, Richard Reina wrote:
>         Can't you "cat file > /dev/ttyS0" on the sending end and
>         "cat /dev/ttyS0
>         > file" on the receiving end?* If you're worried about data
>         loss, just
> Jonathon thank you very much for the reply.  This above prints the
> contents of the file on the receiving machine. I was hoping to trap
> the contents into a file on the receiving end.  Maybe I should know
> how to do that. :(

Did you forget the " > file" after "cat /dev/ttyS0"?  I think my mail
client screwed that up.  Wrap-free version: 

   cat /dev/ttyS0 > file

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway


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