[offtopic?] serial port forwarding

[walter kwaan]

if what you want to do is use the palm desktop software that runs on linux,
then i would recommend you look at how the network hotsync works.  aka you
still install the hotsync software on NT, and then set it up to network
hotsync to the linux box.  i do know that the pilot-link software (for
unix) was working on the network hotsyncing, i dont recall how far along it
is.  


>So the way I figure it, I need to forward a serial port on this NT
>box to a virtual one on the linux box. Now somebody on Slashdot said
>that this is how VNC works anyhow to trap the kbd & mouse, but I
>can't see anything about it in the docs or archives, nor is it a
>very sensible way of doing it*, so I'm very sceptical. OS/2 could do
>this, apparently, but all the modem sharing stuff I've seen for NT
>shares the winsock (for obvious reasons) rather than the serial port.
>
>So, my question to the list is:
>
> /Does/ VNC forward NT serial ports??
>
> If not, does anything else?
>
> Failing *that*, does anything forward linux ports? (so that I've
> got a client end to start with, at least)
>
> Anybody got any other solutions for the original problem - ie. a
> serial-connected device on NT transparently visible as a normal
> serial port on linux.
>
>Any comments or pointers to more appropriate forums appreciated.
>
>
>[* if this /is/ how VNC does it, then obviously it /must/ be
>   sensible. Grovel, grovel etc.]
>
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