intercepting serial comms

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, tns1 wrote:

> tns1 wrote:
>
> > Is is possible to redirect the serial comms of a program after it has
> > already launched and opened /dev/com1?
>
> If not, is it possible to create virtual serial ports under cygwin? To
> do this under linux I believe you need to add a kernel module.

To do this under Cygwin also requires adding a kernel module -- which
makes sense once you realize that the Cygwin kernel is essentially Windows
(plus cygwin1.dll).  If you add a virtual serial port under Windows (see
MSDN for instructions), Cygwin should be able to use it.
	Igor
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