[COLUG] Dosemu, a measure of success

[William Yang]

Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 10:26 -0500, charles morrison wrote:
>> I am now faced with a dilemma of buying a newer laptop with at least
>> one hardware serial port, or getting my program to work with USB
>> serial ports. I prefer the latter.
> 
> I think you may find the former difficult. I have a client who requires
> a hardware serial port on his laptops to interface to handheld devices
> for which he only has DOS drivers. He has had to buy used laptops as he
> can't find any new ones with hardware serial ports.
> 
> The handheld devices have been replace with USB-based ones, but he has a
> significant investment in the old ones and they still do what he needs.

I spent half an hour doing this a year ago, and found a number of Dell
laptops with at least one real serial port.

Getting your USB serial port is probably going to involve making a
symlink in /dev so that DOSEMU can find the port.  It also requires that
you get the USB port working with something like cu or minicom or
gtkterm or *kermit first.

	-Bill


	-Bill


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