[Xastir] serial ports- off topic

[Mike Fenske]

Here's the links to the software mentioned below:

Comfoolery:	http://www.brianpoe.com/comfoolery/
Serproxy:	http://freshmeat.net/projects/serproxy/
Remserial:	http://lpccomp.bc.ca/remserial/

Serproxy has both a windows (command line) and linux version

Mike Fenske
VE7MKF

At 09:20 04/10/04 -0700, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>I added this to the FAQ file, plus some others that I gleaned from
>earlier discussions on this topic.  Here's the new text, please send
>me additional info that people may have on this topic, as this is
>brought up several times a year:
>
>
>+    4.20 How to I redirect serial ports from one computer to another?
>+
>+    For Linux, try a program called "remserial". It works as a
>+    client/server pair to do exactly what you want.  Google should
>+    find it for you.  One user was able to use a spare serial port
>+    on his windows box using "remserial" on the linux computer and
>a
>+    program called "serproxy" on the windows machine. Another one I
>+    have to try for windows is comfoolery.
>+
>+    Another option is to use a Perl script on each end to do the
>+    conversion.
>+
>+    Yet another is to use "netcat".  "man nc" should tell you about
>+    it.  It redirects tcpip data seamlessly under Linux.  Try
>+    something like this:
>+
>+        cat /dev/ttyS0 > nc -p 3000
>+
>+    If you want to put your GPS on a remote serial port, use the
>+    gpsd daemon to do it.
>+
>+    if you wish to put your weather station on a remote serial port,
>+    investigate using OWW (for Dallas weather stations), wx200d
>+    daemon for some Radio Shack/Huger/Oregon Scientific weather
>+    stations, or Meteo daemon for Davis weather stations.
>+
>+    You may also connect to a remote AGWPE instance for using remote
>+    TNC's/soundcards.  Note that AGWPE runs only on WIndows.
>
>
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