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Axleson, Jan: Serial Port Complete, Lakeview Research, Madison, WI, 1998.
Black, Uyless D.: Physical Layer Interfaces & Protocols, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1996.
Campbell, Joe: The RS-232 Solution, 2nd ed., Sybex, 1982.
Campbell, Joe: C Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, 2nd ed., Unknown Publisher, 1993.
Levine, Donald: POSIX Programmer's Guide, O'Reilly, 1991. Nelson, Mark: Serial Communications Developer's Guide, 2nd ed., Hungry Minds, 2000.
Putnam, Byron W.: RS-232 Simplified, Prentice Hall, 1987.
Seyer, Martin D.: RS-232 Made Easy, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 1991.
Stevens, Richard W.: Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, (ISBN 0-201-56317-7; Addison-Wesley) Tischert, Michael & Bruno Jennrich: PC Intern, Abacus 1996. Chapter 7: Serial Ports
Notes re books:
"... Complete" has hardware details (including register) but the programming aspect is Window oriented.
"Physical Layer ..." covers much more than just RS-232.
If it's not available in your Linux distribution try:
Serial Software for Linux software for the serial ports including getty and port monitors.
Serial Communications for communication programs.
irqtune will give serial port interrupts higher priority to improve performance. Using
hdparm for hard-disk tuning may help some more.
statserial show the current state of various modem control lines. See
man pages for:
Low-Level Terminal Interface part of "GNU C Library Reference manual" (in libc (or glibc) docs package). It covers the detailed meaning of "stty" commands, etc. Modem-HOWTO: modems on the serial port
PPP-HOWTO: help with PPP (using a modem on the serial port)
Printing-HOWTO: for setting up a serial printer
Serial-Programming-HOWTO: for some aspects of serial-port programming
Text-Terminal-HOWTO: how they work and how to install and configure
UPS-HOWTO: setting up UPS sensors connected to your serial port
UUCP-HOWTO: for information on setting up UUCP
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