How to redirect serial ports from one computer to another ? For Linux, try a program called "remserial". It works as a client/server pair to do exactly what you want. Google should find it for you. One user was able to use a spare serial port on his windows box using "remserial" on the linux computer and a program called "serproxy" on the windows machine. Another one I have to try for windows is comfoolery. See links below. Another option is to use a Perl script on each end to do the conversion. Yet another is to use "netcat". "man nc" should tell you about it. It redirects tcpip data seamlessly under Linux. Try something like this: cat /dev/ttyS0 > nc -p 3000 If you want to put your GPS on a remote serial port, use the gpsd daemon to do it. Comfoolery: http://www.brianpoe.com/comfoolery/ Serproxy: http://freshmeat.net/projects/serproxy/ Serproxy: http://www.lspace.nildram.co.uk/freeware.html Remserial: http://lpccomp.bc.ca/remserial/
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