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17. Other Sources of Information

17.1 Books

  1. Axleson, Jan: Serial Port Complete, Lakeview Research, Madison, WI, 1998.
  2. Black, Uyless D.: Physical Layer Interfaces & Protocols, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1996.
  3. Campbell, Joe: The RS-232 Solution, 2nd ed., Sybex, 1982.
  4. Levine, Donald: POSIX Programmer's Guide, (ISBN 0-937175-73-0; O'Reilly)
  5. Putnam, Byron W.: RS-232 Simplified, Prentice Hall, 1987.
  6. Seyer, Martin D.: RS-232 Made Easy, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 1991.
  7. Stevens, Richard W.: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, (ISBN 0-201-56317-7; Addison-Wesley)
  8. Tischert, Michael & Bruno Jennrich: PC Intern, Abacus 1996. Chapter 7: Serial Ports

Notes re books:

  1. "... Complete" has hardware details (including register) but the programming aspect is Window oriented.
  2. "Physical Layer ..." covers much more than just EIA-232.

17.2 Serial Software

It's best to use the nearest mirror site, but here's the main sites:
Serial Software for Linux software for the serial ports including getty and port monitors.
Serial Communications for communication programs.

17.3 Linux Documents

17.4 Usenet newsgroups:

17.5 Serial Mailing List

The Linux serial mailing list. To join, send email to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu, with ``subscribe linux-serial'' in the message body. If you send ``help'' in the message body, you get a help message. The server also serves many other Linux lists. Send the ``lists'' command for a list of mailing lists.

17.6 Internet

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