Re: reading in data from rs232 port, require to resend as an email

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Homer L. Hazel wrote:
> There is an application called BLAT which allows you to send email
> via a command line interface.  I believe it is freeware.
>
> You can find it with Google.
>
> Larry Hazel
>
> "Lyn" <sensecam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:e9ce55ff-402e-4cdb-aac4-8a227c9ed5e0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> I am reading in some temperature sensor data, via RS232 (actually
>> converted to  USB via a CP2102  ), approx every hour into a Windows XP
>> PC. It reads fine into Windows Hyperterminal.  I want to be able to
>> send this data out via email as it comes it. Is there any application
>> that can do this, free or commerical, please? I have searched using
>> Google but not found anything.
>> Lyndsay Williams
>> www.girtonlabs.com

Alternatively, it ought to be relatively easy, using Perl, to read the
data over RS232 via the Win32::SerialPort package, and send it over
email via the Net::SMTP package.  You wouldn't use Hyperterminal at all.

If Hyperterminal has macro capability with iteration and time awareness,
and can save the recorded data and fire off a command line program, then
Larry's suggestion might indeed be the simplest.

I'd do it in Perl.