Ive recently spent a lot of time using BSD sockets in Linux to do socket programming. I have written this howto with samples to show a person how to send a message buffer. Feel free to comment on...

Actually it should function as intended.... -o doesn't necessarily need a name... the default is a.out.

I know this post is old, but in case future people are wondering......

The GNU make utility looks for only these file names in order "GNUmakefile" ,"makefile","Makefile"...... but for the most...

Im guessing it's because on your last line of the program you have an extra " after fi.

oops.... my fault i meant it's in windows.h

Talking to the comm port in Windows you should use the winsock.h library.

In linux the procedure for writing to the port is exactly the same as writing to a file.

Steps:

open() //the first...

another way to keep it open for as long as you wish would be to just declare an int(or really any type for that matter) and then read it in

place this where you have cin.get above... this does the...

Do you need to talk to the comm port using Windows or Linux?

cp -r dir/* newdir/

this problem was solved by changing the kernel type from 2.4 to 2.6