[plug] Linux, Devices and Calculators

[Bernard Blackham]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Oliver White wrote:
> Yeah... $80 bucks for a cable. sheesh.

About as bad as the casio ones but worse... The HP cables are simply a
straight through wiring - two plugs and a cable. The Casio ones involve an
inverter to talk RS232 to the 5V it needs, yet they still charge around
$100 for it.

The Casio software is free and available for windoze, and the protocol
itself has been hacked almost to death so I'm planning/hoping to write a
linux equivalent (and perhaps better). Can anybody recommend a
language/framework for doing so, ie GTK(+?) vs. Qt, etc?

I have no experience with X programming, but know a fair amount of C/C++,
Pascal (dump the thought now), Perl and I could learn Python if I had to.
I would prefer it to be portable to 'doze and ultimately Macs. Qt sounds
appealing...

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Regards,

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham
 bernard at blackham.com.au