[comp.sys.ibm.pc] Redirection of COM[12..] to a file

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


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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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