[Tutor] Where best to start? First program to: login, read from and close a serial line?
Bill Gillespie
billintucson@yahoo.com
Sun, 9 Jun 2002 23:22:55 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Folks,
I was very happy to find this resource. I'm a new guy and am just
starting to learn to do some simple programming, and Python is my first
"real programming" language. It's very exciting!
My first programming project:
At work we have a "floor and oil temperature control system". I would
like to build a simple GUI, allowing us to interrogate, display and
change these two values:
1) OIL set point
2) FLOOR set point
The Tkinter (GUI) part looks learnable - but I don't know where to
start in terms of
--> logging into a remote machine
(in Xterm from a Linux machine - to a sun os machine)
--> opening a serial line on it
(I normally just type "tip oftc" to connect <oil floor and
temp cont>)
--> interrogating the embedded device on it,
(two seperate commands ask for current - or order a change)
--> and then logging out again.
($. closes the connection) then I log out of the machine)
Any advice on the general idea of what should take place will be most
welcome.
Thanks much,
Bill
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