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From: Frederico Fonseca <real-email-in-msg-spam@email.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for a more clever solution
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 22:30:51 +0100
References: <bge9ab$hq4$2@pcls4.std.com> 

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 17:51:07 +0000 (UTC), tony@aplawrence.com wrote:

>
>I have a client with an app that uses a modem to page technicians.
>
>Doesn't want to do that; wants to sdend the data to their cell phone 
>instead.
>
>Unfortunately, app apparently does more than just open the port
>and send AT commands.  Looks like it is actually doing ioctl stty's
>and expecting happy results.  App vendor (of course) is unhelpful
>so far; wants customer to upgrade to Windows (which he'll happily
>do when hell freezes solid, or so he says).
>
>My thought is that I have to write a happy little fake serial port
>driver that will pretend everything is just as it should be and then
>suck up the data for me.
>
>My inability to think of anything else is hopefully not an indication
>that there isn't an easier way.


Two options.
1- Change APP and tell the maker to go and shop elsewhere.

2- Connect one serial port to another one, and write a small app to
read from that second port and to reply as the app expects, and then
make that new app to send to the cell phone in a more suitable way.
This should not be too dificult to do.




Frederico Fonseca
ema il: frederico_fonseca at syssoft-int.com

You might want to look at this Device::SerialPort article also.

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