writeserial

Parameters

h

string, Tcl handle to the serial port

buf

string to be output

result

0 if write is successful, -1 if unsuccessul

Description

• No end of line character is appended to the string; the user might have to add it if the device being talked to requires it. The Tcl command puts -nonewline is used. In addition, the translation mode of openserial can come into way.

Examples

h=openserial(1,"9600,n,8,1")
writeserial(h,"#02"+ascii(13))
readserial(h)
closeserial(h)

See Also

• openserial
• readserial
• closeserial
• serialstatus

Authors

Enrico Segre

Maintainers

Aditya Sengupta <apsengupta@iitb.ac.in>

Bibliography

• TCL manual:
• puts: http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/puts.htm
• flush: http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/flush.htm
• Project page: https://github.com/sengupta/Scilab-Serial