[ale] Wanted: trivial minicom-type function

[Christopher Fowler]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:37 -0500, Mills, John M. wrote:
> Christopher -
> 
> 'robin' looks like I need - I'll start with it as-written, then maybe
> 'dumb it down' a bit.
> 
> In a bit more detail, I'm going to wrap the comm function in 'nc', to
> export two ttys from our embedded Linux environment as TCP/IP sockets. I
> will then use a complementary MsWin package to remap them as "COMx:" and
> "COMy:" so I can run a MsWin app that accesses hardware attached to the
> ttys: (Rube Goldberg, eat your heart out!)

Remember that the Win32 package can not set the termios settings.
You'll have to set that directly on the "terminal server".  A few years
back I wrote a program called 'ttyd' that would basically listen on a
tcp port and connect that with a serial port.