Virtual setting for com ports

Virtual setting for com ports

[Juhani Pirttilahti]

I'd like to know how the $_com1 = "virtual" setting actually does work?
What it does and what doesn't do? More details please. :)

Re: Virtual setting for com ports

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Juhani Pirttilahti wrote:
> I'd like to know how the $_com1 = "virtual" setting actually does work?
> What it does and what doesn't do? More details please. :)
Not too much to say in fact. It just
supresses the normal dosemu output
(whatever the DOS program writes to
the screen, goes no-where), and redirects
your COM1 to the terminal. So the
stdout of dosemu is what the program
sends to COM1, and whatever goes to
stdin, the program can read from COM1.
That way your telnet session talk to
COM1.
There is a vmodem.txt there somewhere,
that describes this in more details.

Re: Virtual setting for com ports

[Bart Oldeman]

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Stas Sergeev wrote:

> Juhani Pirttilahti wrote:
> > I'd like to know how the $_com1 = "virtual" setting actually does work?
> > What it does and what doesn't do? More details please. :)
> Not too much to say in fact. It just supresses the normal dosemu output
> (whatever the DOS program writes to the screen, goes no-where), and
> redirects your COM1 to the terminal. So the stdout of dosemu is what the
> program sends to COM1, and whatever goes to stdin, the program can read
> from COM1. That way your telnet session talk to COM1. There is a
> vmodem.txt there somewhere, that describes this in more details.

see src/doc/README/vmodem in the source tarball. I don't know why but 
somehow it never made it in SGML form into README.txt.

Bart