Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Redirection of COM[12..] to a file Message-ID: Date: 25 Jan 89 08:09:20 GMT References: <814@altos86.UUCP> <912@cernvax.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 21 In-reply-to: emanuel@cernvax.UUCP's message of 23 Jan 89 11:11:22 GMT In article <912@cernvax.UUCP> emanuel@cernvax.UUCP (emanuel) writes: Do you know of any way of doing a redirection of the serial ports of a PC-compatible to a file? There have been going around some small and good PD programs that perform this redirection on the parallel ports. How about serial ones? Why haven't I seen such a thing before? The IBM-PC Bios loses again! The BIOS support for the serial ports isn't interrupt driven, so that *everyone* who uses them goes straight to the hardware. But I have a related problem. I have a user who simply wants to copy everything that comes in COM1 to disk, but they want it to be a TSR so they can do something else with the machine. Does anyone have a solution for me or do I have to hack at LPTX? -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) "I saved the whales!" - Rebecca L. Nelson, 3.5 years old, on receiving her Christmas present of a whale "adoption" certificate. Bless her liberal heart.