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    1 This is the readme file of the logserial distribution.
    2 
    3 This program was developed for loging input on the serial ports of linux. The 
    4 original purpuse of this program is to log the reports of our telephone 
    5 central. The program was inspired by linbar-0.2 (which is for barcode readers 
    6 connected to a linux box, writen by I.Ioanou <roryt@hol.gr> ). The serial port
    7 controlling routines come from Miquel van Smoorenburg's <miquels@cistron.nl> 
    8 minicom-1.75 . 
    9 
   10 Installation:
   11 Untar the gziped arcive, then cd into the logserial-x.y directory and type make.
   12 You can only use this program as root, because of the /dev/ttySx i/o 
   13 permissions, or you can chmod /dev/ttySx to enable everybody using serial ports.
   14 (But this isn't the safest thing to do.)
   15 
   16 Usage:
   17 
   18      logserial [parameters]
   19 	Optional parameters are:
   20 		 -h prints help screen
   21 		 -v prints version of logserial
   22 		 -t tty        	 default /dev/ttyS1
   23 		 -s speed      	 default 9600
   24 		 -d data bits  	 default 8
   25 		 -p parity     	 default N	valid arguments N,S,M,E,O
   26 		 -c for software handshake	default hardware handshake
   27 		 -f output file	 default /dev/stdout
   28 		 -b for daemonized runing
   29                  -r    if exists logserial run in reverse mode
   30                  -n filename     specify input named pipe in reverse mode
   31                  -a use this option if you will read output file wit DOS
   32                  -u umask        specify umask for logserial
   33                  -m mask         specify file creation mode for logserial
   34 
   35 		 
   36 After starting you should read a message like this:
   37 Successfully opened /dev/ttyS1. Start loging.    or
   38 Successfully opened /dev/ttyS1. Start sending.   
   39 depending on reverse or normal usage.
   40 If you did't get this message the device you want to use is used by another
   41 program and logserial can't open it. In this case CTRL-C will help you to exit.
   42 You can also exit the running program by CTRL-C, in this case the program will
   43 close the port and the output file.
   44 In normal mode logserial reads the given serial line, and print it to its 
   45 standard output or into the given file. In reverse mode logserial reads its
   46 standard input or the given named pipe and sends the read data to the serial
   47 line.
   48 You can enable DOS output mode with option -a, this mode has effect only on
   49 new line handling (CR or CR+LF).
   50 You can specify umask and user, group and other file access permission with
   51 -u and -m options. Syntax is identical to umask and chmod.
   52 
   53 Thanx for Doug Harple (dharple@mail.communityconnect.com) for the daemonize 
   54 option.
   55     
   56 This program is free software (GPL).
   57 
   58 The program is in a very early state, so comments are wellcommed.
   59 
   60 Sinkovics Zoltan <sinko@szarvas.hu>