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    <h1>Serial communication for Akka</h1>
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	<h2>Highlights</h2>
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	  <li>Reactive: only does work when required (no constant polling of ports or blocking IO)</li>
	  <li>Integrates seamlessly with Akka</li>
	  <li>Portable to POSIX systems</li>
	  <li>Watchable ports: react to connection of new devices</li>
	  <li>Compatible with Reactive Streams</li>
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	<h2>Getting Started</h2>
	<p>Have a look at the example below to get a feel of akka-serial's usage, then follow the first steps of the <a href="documentation/{{site.version_docs}}/manual">user guide</a>.</p>
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  <h2>Quick Example</h2>
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  <p>More examples on akka-serial's usage are available in the <a href="https://github.com/jodersky/akka-serial/tree/master/samples">samples</a> source directory.</p>
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  <p><small>Released under the terms of the 3-clause BSD license. Copyright (c) 2015 Jakob Odersky.</small></p>
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