We are using minicom to communicate a device through the...

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Submitted on 3/12/2004
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We are using minicom to communicate a device through the serial port. Our application uses Tcl.Tk and Expect commands which spawns minicom and do the work of sending and receiving data through the seiral port. Here we receive some control characters along with data which is not of readable format .We are in need of intrepeting those control charctersinto readable format. Here is the sample data what we receive: We read data from the buffer.We handle those data by placing directly to the Textbox in a window and writing those data to a file directly reading it from the buffer. Data placed in Textbox looks like: \x1b[?25l\x1b[0m\x0f\x1b[7m - CONSOLE - MANAGER MODE -\x1b[?25l\x1b[0mMain Menu\x1b[0m\x0f Status and Counters... x1b[0m\x0f\x1b[4mC\x1b\[0m\x0f --- along with other readable charcters too Data that been written to the file read from the buffer looks like: 14:32:00.120 m^H^[[?25h^[[24;29He^H^[[?25h^[[24;30Hn^H^[[?25h^[[24;3 u^H^[[?25h^[[24;32H 14:32:00.147 ^[[23;80H ^[[24; ^[[24;32H 14:32:00.543 ^[[K^[[?25h^[[1; ^[[24; ^[[1; ^[[H^[[2J^[[24; ^[[H^[[2J^[[24; ^[[1; HP^[[24; ^[[1; HP ProCurve Switch 5308XL^[[24; ^[[2; ^[[K========================================^[[24; ^[[2;4 ========================================^[[2;80H^[[24; ^[[2;27H- CONSOLE - MANAGER MODE -^[[24; ^[[?25l^[[23; 14:32:00.587 ^[[K^[[23; ^[[K^[[3; ^[[K^[[3;36HMain Menu^[[4; ^[[K 14:32:00.998 ^[[K^[[5;4H1. Status and Counters...^[[6; ^[[K^[[6;4H2. Switch Configuration...^[[7; ^[[K^[[7;4H3. Console Passwords...^[[8; ^[[K^[[8;4H4. Event Log^[[9; ^[[K^[[9;4H5. Command Line (CLI)^[[10; ^[[K^[[10;4H6. Reboot Switch^[[11; ^[[K^[[11;4H7. Download OS^[[12; ^[[K^[[12;4H8. Run Setup^[[13; ^[[K^[[13;4H0. Logout^[[14; ^[[K 14:32:01.007 ^[[K 14:32:01.021 ^[[K 14:32:01.037 ^[[K 14:32:01.048 ^[[K 14:32:01.057 ^[[K 14:32:01.080 ^[[K 14:32:01.089 ^[[K @

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