On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 00:52 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >Do any of you have any perl scripts that do this? I would like to look > >at your logic either for a serial or usb port. > > Based on an upcoming but unlikely need I may have, I thought I would give > google a look, first hit lays some ideas out pretty easily: > > http://aplawrence.com/BGarlock/logger.html > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Device-SerialPort/SerialPort.pm > > What exactly do you need to do? > Thanks for your response.... I found this script on aplawrence as well, but my first attempts failed in making it work. I decided to take another look at it after your note, and was successful getting Device::SerialPort to installed using a different computer. I had to change : #$PORT = "/dev/ttyD015"; # port to watch $PORT = "/dev/ttyS0"; # port to watch but I was able to make it execute. I am trying to connect a automated urine analyzer to a serial report with the hope of catching the results so that I can eventually incorporate the data in a patient medical record. I intend to do the same thing for a blood analyzer. Now that I have Tony Lawrence's script executing I can take the next step of connecting the urine analyzer to to the serial port to do some testing. Thanks for prompting me to look at the logger script again, I had given up on it. Greg