filepro & Avocent ESP

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007, Doug Luurs wrote:
>Anyone ever use a Avocent ESP-2 MI (Serial to Ethernet) Unit for data
>collection ?
>
>Setup:
>
>	SAMSys MP93290 2.8 EPC	(RFID Reader)
>	Avocent ESP-2 MI		(2 RS232 Ports to Ethernet
>Adapter)
>	SCO OPENServer 6.0
>	Filepro 5.0.14
>
>Want I want to do is write a Database to collect the RFID tags going
>"Out the Door".
>I have it working to a point, but only at 9600 baud. (So the application
>runs slow).
>The MP9320 runs "Normally" at 57600 baud, but every time I "OPEN" the
>device, it opens
>the port at 9600.
>
>Is there a way to set the port to open at 57600 baud vs the "Default sco
>port value" of 9600?

I've written perl scripts that set the comm parameters on a serial
port, starting at boot time, and running continuously.

Another solution I've used with RealWorld accounting where the
COBOL actually opened and closed the print files for every line
printed, and hard-coded forms devices bypassing the Unix spooler,
was to have a program that continually read the forms device,
sending the output to a spooler, closing the spool file after some
period of time with no activity.

Bill
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