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Re: Read a GPS through a Serial Port
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Originally Posted by RufflesRidge View Post
This bug report suggests that the Serial port in Java is broken:
http://firstforge.wpi.edu/sf/go/artf...3699545405 50
I wrote that bug... and it's not fixed as far as I know.

Not being able to clear the read buffer makes the serial port quite useless. Any imput data just continues to stack up. So every time you read you get a complete history of the past data.

I tihnk you could recompile the source locally to fix the problem. I didn't have a lot of data to send, I just used a bunch of relay channels for the signals I needed to send. It would be really nice to have a useable RS232 port though in the future.
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