Here's an idea for some bright Window's Sockets programmer
I've looked around for this and I haven't found it...
(and it's very scary when I try to code anything!)
Anyway I'd be very interested in a com port redirector. The idea being that that a com port would be monitored by a winsock telnet program. When the com port is accessed by a program, the telnet program then telnets to the address/port as specified in it's configuration file. I guess the telnet could be initiated by monitoring the rts and dtr states given by the program trying to access the port.
I figure that this would be useful for communication and fax programs, also maybe printers and such. I suppose LPT port redirection would be useful, but we already have several LPR and LPD programs around which work well with Windows. I hope it's usable under Winosck because I use several different stacks, Winsock being the only common dnominator.
Obviously second would be a com port server which ran over winsock, but I guess we wouldn't want to ask for too much ;)
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