emanuel@cernvax.UUCP (emanuel) (01/23/89)
Hi, folks, Do you know of any way of doing a redirection of the serial ports of a PC-compatible to a file? There have been going around some small and good PD programs that perform this redirection on the parallel ports. How about serial ones? Why haven't I seen such a thing before? I'd really appreciate some help on the subject, if you know something. Thanks in advance, Emanuel Machado DISCLAIMER: I'm not in any way responsible for my company's oppinios... -- Emanuel T.M. Machado, CERN | "Science is true. | UUCP: _ _ | Don't be misled | emanuel@cernvax.UUCP /_ ____ __ __ _ </ | by facts." | FLAMES: /_ / / / /_ < / / /_/ <'_ /_ | -- Finagle's Creed | /dev/null
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (01/25/89)
In article <912@cernvax.UUCP> emanuel@cernvax.UUCP (emanuel) writes:
Do you know of any way of doing a redirection of the serial ports
of a PC-compatible to a file? There have been going around some small
and good PD programs that perform this redirection on the parallel ports.
How about serial ones? Why haven't I seen such a thing before?
The IBM-PC Bios loses again!
The BIOS support for the serial ports isn't interrupt driven, so
that *everyone* who uses them goes straight to the hardware.
But I have a related problem. I have a user who simply wants to copy
everything that comes in COM1 to disk, but they want it to be a TSR so they
can do something else with the machine. Does anyone have a solution for
me or do I have to hack at LPTX?
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