Hi, I'm trying to use a Toshiba 430 laptop loaded with Slackware 7.1 as a debug terminal. I've been trying to use minicom with a direct connection to the target computer which is dumping serial data. Minicom for some reason is only displaying some of the data but not all so I'd like to build a much smaller program that just dumps the data arriving at the serial port, ttyS0 to a file so I can debug the problem. I know the data is being sent because I can connect the cable to another laptop running Win95/qmodem and I get all the info sent. My question is how can I set up Perl to attach to ttyS0? Do I just treat it as a file at /dev/ttyS0? Thanks for tolerating a newbe question, -John