On 2009-04-11, Scott David Daniels <scott.dani...@acm.org> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2009-04-11, Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote: >> >>> You can write a port redirector in user-space in MS-Windows, >>> but you can't in Linux/Unix. On Unix systems you have to >>> write a kernel module that sits below the tty layer. >> >> Perhaps I should elucidate further. > > This part I actually understand. The OP has a program named > "RouteBuddy" that talks to a device over a serial port, and he > want to repalce the data stream coming from that device. My > question is, "where does the device that he wants to replace > plug in?"
To some other machine/device on the network that does have a serial port. You can buy dedicated devices that do serial-ethernet, or you can use any old computer that does happen to have a serial port. If he was going to plug the device into a real serial port on the machine inquestion, then he wouldn't need a virtual serial port. > I don't see anywhere on my laptop I could plug in anything but > a USB connector, an ethernet connector, a firewire connector, > headphones, speakers, a display connector, or a power cord. He's not trying to plug the device into your laptop. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list