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From: burkett@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Edward W Burkett)
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Subject: Com: --> Disk
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Date: 28 Dec 88 15:38:21 GMT
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I recently picked up a copy of a program called LPTx which is a TSR
package that redirects output from 3 printer ports to 3 files.  It is
a great program and is available from Simtel.

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What I want to know is ---- Can the same thing be done with a serial port?

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This question has been asked several times in the past and it just seems to
disappear......As far as I can tell the only way to redirect output from a COM
port to a disk is by using the copy command  [copy com1 filename] but this
is really not very helpful.  The mode command sure doesn't seem to work!

I have a graphics package that is outputing HPGL through the COM ports and
I would like to capture this output as a file so that I can use a plotter at 
a different site.  This necessitates the redirection occuring in the background
as the graphics program (Chart Master) is running.

(I have a friend that is using an AMIGA and he just laughs)

How about it......anyone know a way of doing this?

Thanks