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Windows COM port communication with Expect

Posted by lanceh (lanceh), 17 April 2008

Does anyone have an example of an Expect script for communicating with a device connected to a Windows XP workstation's COM port?

Please...no theories about that it should be possible. I'd rather know if some has successfully done this before I put more time into trying to get this to work. I've tried and apparently, I'm overlooking something.

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