23 Apr
2011
23 Apr
'11
12:13 p.m.
On 4/22/11 8:54 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
(I got what you meant)
Ahh! Ok, so that piece of the puzzle is filled in. Now if there's
some way to write a driver to take stdin and stdout, and connect them to
a logical COM: port...I can't imagine that'd be too difficult...then one
could use pretty much any terminal emulator to do this.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Windows does,
in fact have the ability to pipe console I/O just as
unices do. It's also possible for a parent process to get handles to
the I/O channels of child processes. (See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682499%28v=vs.85%29.aspx for
a sample of the latter.) I'm not aware of any Windows terminal
emulators that know how to take input from stdio, but there's
absolutely no reason it couldn't be done -- it's not a Windows
limitation.
"take input from stdio" should read "redirect stdio from another
process" but you get the gist...