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Asynchronous Serial Communication C Program

Tags: serial, c, communication, programming
I'm designing a serial communications program on a linux system with an asychronous device.  I've read other articles and all of them say, "Reading and writing from the port is easy" but I don't quite know how this is done for asynchronous input on linux (or unix would do the trick to if you know how) --- My main problem is that I need to send commands to the device I'm hooking up to the device to get the input, it won't just send the input by itself.  If the manual gives me the commands (supposedly they are designed for a basic or visual basic program so who knows if a C program would even work), how do I work that in to the C code and how do save the files given the specifications listed above?  Please dont' respond by saying "write the program in basic", I'm curious about how to do this in C.
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Question Asked By: cdf2108
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