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<DIV><SPAN class=531491600-19082007><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Gudday</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=531491600-19082007><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have for some time
now discovered the power and versatlity of PERL on LINUX.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=531491600-19082007><FONT face=Arial size=2>It does mostly what
I want, Database interaction, serial port, sockets, graphics
creation.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=531491600-19082007><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=531491600-19082007><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have the situation
now where I would like to use it under windows.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=531491600-19082007><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=531491600-19082007><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have installed
active perl, and telnet works well.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=531491600-19082007><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=531491600-19082007><FONT face=Arial size=2>What I am struggling
with is serial routines under windows with perl.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=531491600-19082007><FONT face=Arial size=2>Has anyone had
experience in this area ?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=531491600-19082007><FONT face=Arial size=2>What I am doing is
parsing serial data and connecting to mapping program
sockets.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=531491600-19082007><FONT face=Arial size=2>Perhaps JAVA might
be a solution ? But one step at a time.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=531491600-19082007><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andrew Rich VK4TEC</FONT></DIV>
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