[Coco] drivewire serial port progress

[Steven Hirsch]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

>> I think this is a great new DriveWire addition.  I would love to see this
>> work in all versions of DriveWire.  When I use DriveWire I typically use the
>> windows version.
>>
>
> I will do what I can.   After spending some time with Google, Windows
> does not appear to support PTYs, while linux and mac (and many other
> os) do.  The PTY functionality makes the emulated serial port show up
> on the server as a basically regular device able to be used with
> practically any application running on the server machine, such as a
> standard terminal program.  Without PTY support, I'm not sure there is
> a way to do such a thing in Windows.  This means you would not be able
> to use a regular Windows terminal program or other software to access
> the Coco's DW serial port like you could in the *nix environments.

Aaron,

It might be worth taking a look at how Cygwin handles ptys.  A large 
number of applications that use them have been ported, so there must be 
some way to get equivalent functionality.

Steve


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