On Wednesday 30 December 2009 08:12:13 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > Hi, Del. Have you considered a hardware solution using a one-to-many > transceiver? I never heard of a such a thing but I am sure it either > exists or can be built. I don't know if your clients are remote > (other locations) and that is why you are using TCP? > > Software solution: I'd write a program to read from the serial port > and write the data over TCP to any connected listeners. > > Is that too simple of an answer?
For me that is solved with a 1/2 page of C. I'm sure other scripting languages do likewise. Thinks for a moment: a tcp/ip port-share-server gives the data to anyone making a connection, terminates that connection when they do ... USB serial ports are easy and cheap: 1 serial port per consumer Serials in parallel James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
