On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:31:34AM +0100, Tim mentioned:
> > Can anyone advise me: How to call a 'C' program from Tcl ?.
> > Alternatively, how can I add an extra port to the OS. I want to
> > set/clear the watchdog on my sbc's. This resides at 0x443. I have a
> > bit of 'C' code which does this, or if it works as a port, I can write
> > to it directly.
Ah, don't bother with C. You can use 'dd'. Something like
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/port skip=1091 count=1 bs=1
should write 0 to port 1091 (0x443). Exec dd from TCL with exec..
Kate
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