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Article #2832Re: Create virtual serial COM port
From: John van de Geyn
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:47
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:47
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No worries Thom, then I could only suggest looking at the WINDDK and building your own driver to which your program then provides an interface to have some control or paying the money to get something that has already been done by a third party. John "Thom A." <thoma@gmx.at> wrote in message news:459ada35$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > Hi John, > > > thank you very much for your suggestions, but workarounds are no options. > I cannot force anyone to buy extra hardware, so that he/she can use my > software! > > Actually, there are douzens of programs that usually use a not very > intelligent driver to use with the same device at the same time via serial > connection. My program is much more sophisticated, and shall replace the > driver. For this reason, it must provide the well-known interfaces, > including (virtual) RS232 ports. > > > Thom
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