23 Apr
2011
23 Apr
'11
1:41 p.m.
On Saturday, April 23, 2011, Dave McGuire wrote:
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.
Or just find a decent telnet client, and use netcat, perhaps? I'd
imagine that it exists on Windows, not just *nix...
Pat
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Patrick Finnegan
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...