virtual serial port

[stefan63]

Whole day i searched for "virtual serial port". There are many websites with
such advertisement , but real info is not a lot. As i understand there are 2
ways - one uses sockets other - something else - maybe "services" (in
windows).
What is task - we want to connect printer to serial port trough standard
Windows minidriver. In same time - we want to send some commands to printer (
to change baudrate for example). Using TCP/IP to serial port
"gate" i saw i can "print" and "exchange" (not simultaneously offcource).
I tryed serial port redirector too. They are good for testing, but we need
simle , invisible for customer, decision. Maybe program ,which can handle some
dialog window and send commands to printer via real port, and represents
virtual serial port, binded to this real port.
Any help or link to infopages about VSP is wellcome!
stefan

[cpns]

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[stefan63]

hello cpns,

Yes, serial port redirector is whar i want. In wikipedia it is really named as

device driver. In same time i tried this one . Maybe i'm wrong but this

program seems to be something , which can be done with tools , simpler than

DDK. If its so, what "trivial" ways can You point to?

BTW, when real port is assigned to printer, Windows does not allow access to

this port, even there is no active print job. Redirector with 2 virtual ports,

assigned to one real port, solves problem. Other way, i found , is TCP/IP

redirector, but it seems overcomplicated in this case.

Excuse me , if i'm asking in wrong forum, but i think You are one from right

people to ask :-)

regards

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