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Re: [LUG] Wine serial ports help

 

Alan Pope wrote:

>> I can use the pgm in wine  (version 1.0) but it needs to output data
>> to / from the shop till using comms port.
>> I have mapped in .wine/dosdevices the file com1 to /dev/ttys0 and in
>> desperation  a usb to serial converter /dev/ttyUSB0
>>
> 
> WINE doesn't 'do' USB though does it?
> 

No but linux abstracts a USB to serial converter to appear as a pretty
bog standard character device if wine can talk to /dev/ttyS0 then there
is no reason that it can't talk to /dev/ttyUSB0. its presented the same
to WINE.

Robin

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