File to Serial

[John Van Ostrand]

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 11:28 -0600, Eric.Malenfant-xNZwKgViW5gAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org wrote:
>  `cat file > /dev/ttyS0` ; where 0 is your serial port.
> 
> - Eric

What is the purpose for this? Are you trying to print? Send a file to an
archaic device?

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