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2/28/2012
5. How to Use Glider Terminal’s Serial Port Perspective
Glider Terminal’s serial port perspective allows a user to communicate over the Internet
with any device connected to a Dock Server serial port. This perspective does not
assume the connected device is a Slocum glider. The serial port perspective behaves
like a terminal emulator (i.e., a ProComm, a Hyperterminal, or a Minicom). It displays
characters received from a serial port as they are received and sends characters to the
serial port as they are entered. In addition, this perspective displays the status of each
serial port (e.g., CD, RI, DTR, RTS, etc…).
If Dock Server knows a Slocum glider is attached to a serial port, the serial port
perspective will show the glider’s name with its corresponding port name. However, no
glider specific features are available through this perspective. To display Glider
Terminal’s serial port perspective, click the button shown in Figure 51.
Figure 51. Serial Port Perspective Button.
5.1 Interacting with a Serial Port Device
To view data from a serial port device, follow these steps.
1. Click the serial port perspective button to show that perspective. If not connected to a
Dock Server, follow the steps in section
3.4 Browsing a Dock Server
to show serial ports
in the serial port tree.
Figure 52 shows the serial port perspective with open serial port tabs.
2. Click a Dock Server node’s lollipop icon to open it and show its managed serial ports.
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Serial Port Perspective Button
