On 2009-04-11, Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > In article <6lgdnsbypsl1fx3unz2dnuvz_uqdn...@pdx.net>, > Scott David Daniels <scott.dani...@acm.org> wrote: >> 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?" 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. > > A number of vendors (Keyspan, Belkin) make USB serial ports. FWIW, I > use one here on this iMac and OS X with screen(1) and a null modem cable > to act as a serial console for a headless Linux box.
True, but that doesn't help the OP, where the data is coming into the OS-X machine via a network connection. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
