[COLUG] Dosbox serial ports

[charles morrison]

I have a few programs which I wish to run under Linux which are written 
in Quick Basic. The program of interest loads, starts, and runs under 
Dosbox. Unfortunately, it uses the serial port. Also, unfortunately, 
laptops come with USB ports.

There are patches available for Dosbox for serial port drivers, but I 
have found nothing for a USB serial port.

My thinking is to redirect Dosbox I/O using a pipe command or 
redirecting I/O. So far, I have been unsuccessful at figuring out how to 
do it, since the O part requires going from a Dos Com1 to a Linux 
/dev/ttyUSBx using a dos command, and the I part requires taking input 
from a Linux /dev/ttyUSBx and redirect to a Dos Com1.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Here are answers to unasked questions:  No, I'm not buying an old 
laptop. No, I can't carry a desktop where ever I go into a customer's 
plant. No, I don't want to use windows. No, it doesn't work under WINE, 
either. Yes, I have put renaming into the Dos partition for WINE and in 
the USB drivers to recognize the USB to serial adapter and rename it as 
Com1. Gambas only compiles Visual Basic programs, not Quick Basic (so 
I've been told). No, I have not tried any other Dos emulators.

Thanks,

Charlie Morrison

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