Re: Create virtual serial COM port

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From: Thom A.
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:09

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>>Does anyone have an example on how to create a virtual serial COM port?
>>
>>I know there are shareware components for that, but they are extremely 
>>expensive... :-(


> What is it you are trying to do? Virtual COM ports would normally be OS 
> drivers and not components.


Almost. My software would work like a driver. It would give a 
configurable number of programs the option to access a device by opening 
the respective number of virtual ports. It would handle incoming 
requests from the other programs and either forward them to the device, 
or respond itself.

Thom

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