[OT] Serial Input Question

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 23 June 2010, Thom Paine wrote:
>I'm posting this to the list because I am hoping I can do this in linux
> not only for free, but also with greater functionality.
>
>I am looking at this software http://www.taltech.com/products/comfile.html
> to be able to read data off a serial input.
>
>I have a printer in my comm center that tracks our 911 calls. We are
>currently spewing the data to tractor fed paper and while not only
> jamming, it sometimes runs out of paper and people don't notice it for a
> while.
>
>I'd like to be able to read this data from the RS232 port, and have it
> write to a file. I'd like to be able to archive the data based on dates.
> I'm sure I can do this with cron.
>
>Is anyone else on the list capturing RS232 data, and logging it?
>
>Thanks.
>
I'm not familiar enough with your data flow, but it seems to me you should 
be able to use the 'tee' function in there someplace. 

See 'man tee'

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