I want to use my debian box to capture the input/output from a windows serial line. Currently, the windows machine has a modem connected to say, COM1. My Debian Linux system has two free serial ports ttyS0 and ttyS1. If I were to hook the windows COM1 port through a null modem cable to ttyS0, and the modem with a normal cable to ttyS1 would I be able to software link the two serial devices together and capture what goes across?
I thought that I'd try somthing like: cat /dev/ttyS0 > /dev/ttyS1 & cat /dev/ttyS1 > /dev/ttyS0 & Does anybody think that this will work? or can anybody offer any advice? How do I plumb in the capture file? Please CC me on any responses, as I don't have the bandwidth to subscribe to this list. Thomas Lovie.
