[TriLUG] Way for linux to access serial port on MS machine. (possibly OT)

[Andrew Perrin]

I've never seen such an animal (although one might exist). But it
shouldn't be too hard to write a perl script that would run on the Windows
machine, just piping the serial port's I/O directly to a socket which, in
turn, could be read/written under linux.

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Fri, 16 May 2003, Mike Norwood wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> At the risk of frightening people again by mentioning Windows, I wonder if
> anyone is aware of anyway to access a device on a serial port on a Windows
> machine from Linux.  Ideally some way to create a /dev/something on the
> linux machine that would map to one of the serial ports on the other
> machine.  Has anyone ever needed something like this or come across a way
> to do it?  I am trying to figure a way to access a signature capture pad
> that is attached to the Windows machine from the Linux machine. I can access
> it fine if directly attached to a Linux serial port, but there is a
> Windows PC in the perfect location for the signature capture device, and I
> am out of serial ports on the Linux system.  The windows and Linux machine
> would be networked together.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help
>
> Mike Norwood
>
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