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Mike Collins wrote:
> There are many ways to achieve this depending on how complex or robust you 
> want to make it.  If you are writing a system that needs to be deployed on 
> many different systems then your best options is to write some sort of 
> filter driver.  However this is not a straightforward task and requires the 
> MS DDK which is costly and complicated.
> 
> Another option is to use DLL-injection and API hooking.  If it is aimed at 
> capturing one specific application then this shouldn't be a big deal.  You 
> need to determine how the legacy application is communicating with the com 
> port and then inject into it's process space and hook the api that it uses. 
> Once this is done, you hook / callback procedure will be called before the 
> API in question, and it will give you the facility to achieve the data and 
> reject or relay the call on to the real api.
> 
> If you feel this is an option that you would like to pursue then post back 
> with your e-mail address and i can contact you.  I can provide you with some 
> information and some starting points, although i can't actually provide you 
> with source code as my injection system is based on another's that i have 
> licensing for.  As a starting point, look at www.codeproject.com and do a 
> search for dll-injection and api hooking.
> 
> HTH, Mike C
> 
> 

This is very generous offer. But I am not the one wishing to do this. I 
hope Zahir realizes that you were probably responding to him and takes 
you up on your offer.

Zahir, offers like Mike's don't come every day. I suggest you contact him.

Jim