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["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Curt Grimley wrote:
> Hi David - taking this "off list", while I was turning in last night I 
> thought I shouldn't have assumed you knew what a "named pipe" is - it is 
> a file node called a FIFO (First In First Out).  So here is some pseudo 
> code:
>
>    mknod phonedata p   # creates a FIFO file, see man mknod
>    php processPhoneData.php < phonedata &     # or maybe mysql, whatever 
> works for you. It will read data from the named pipe until another 
> process closes it.
>    minicom ... -C phonedata     # see man minicom for all parameters.
>
> Then minicom would just read the port and write to "phonedata" all day 
> long, all week long or whatever.
>
> Hope that helps, and good luck with your project.
> Curt

Thank you for thinking about it and posting. I would not have gotten the 
named pipe right. I have run across them before when setting up dhcpd in 
a chroot environment, but that was years ago. Now I have my starting point.

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