Subj : Re: tcpser
To   : Blue White
From : Vk3jed
Date : Wed May 13 2020 09:04:00

-=> On 05-11-20 15:24, Blue White wrote to alterego <=-

 BW> If the /dev/ttyS1 exists, for example, but there is no actual physical
 BW> hardware serial port that ttyS1 points to, it won't work then?

More correctly, if there is no serial device (which could be a physical or
virtual COM port).

 al> In my use case, I use another tool tty0tty which creates a virtual
 al> null modem. On one side tcpser listens (eg: tnt0), and on the other
 al> side the serial application connects to (eg: tnt1). In my case, I
 al> pass tnt1 to dosemu - which makes it available to a DOS machine as
 al> COM1. ...????

 BW> That is what I would be hoping to do... have a dosemu machine which
 BW> would identify an emulated modem as a COM port.

Yep, then the combination of tcpser and tty0tty is what you need.


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