I tried
Virtual Serial Ports Driver XP 4.0 from Eltima Software
http://www.eltima.com/products/vspdxp/
Platforms "Virtual Serial Ports Driver XP" is compatible with:
Windows XP
Windows NT 4.x
Windows Me
Windows 98
Windows 95
it does not work
greetings
Philippe


"Meindert Sprang" schreef in bericht
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"DiscountMaineSoftware.Com" wrote in message
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Yea, he's right...if you have 2 serial ports in your PC, great. If you
have
a laptop with only one port, I'd go the route of the PCMCIA Serial Card.
I
havent seen any USB adaptors that work 100%.

How many do you want? I can supply you with adapters that even prevent the
crazy mouse problem in XP and win2K.

Serial Ports cant be shared, just so you know. So if you want the
second
program to use what the first is using, it wont work.

With a software utility you can. You can use Serial Splitter from
www.eltima.com or VirtualPlex-1 from www.shipmodul.com. The latter will
also
allow all applications to talk back to the one serial port. The only
problem
for the OP is that he runs Windows 98. Both utilities only run on NT4,
2000
or XP.

Meindert

I think I was wrong
what I need is a serial splitter
that works with windows 98SE
gr
Ph.

"Philippe" schreef in bericht
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I tried
Virtual Serial Ports Driver XP 4.0 from Eltima Software
http://www.eltima.com/products/vspdxp/
Platforms "Virtual Serial Ports Driver XP" is compatible with:
Windows XP
Windows NT 4.x
Windows Me
Windows 98
Windows 95
it does not work
greetings
Philippe


"Meindert Sprang" schreef in bericht
...
"DiscountMaineSoftware.Com" wrote in message
...

Yea, he's right...if you have 2 serial ports in your PC, great. If
you
have
a laptop with only one port, I'd go the route of the PCMCIA Serial
Card.
I
havent seen any USB adaptors that work 100%.

How many do you want? I can supply you with adapters that even prevent
the
crazy mouse problem in XP and win2K.

Serial Ports cant be shared, just so you know. So if you want the
second
program to use what the first is using, it wont work.

With a software utility you can. You can use Serial Splitter from
www.eltima.com or VirtualPlex-1 from www.shipmodul.com. The latter will
also
allow all applications to talk back to the one serial port. The only
problem
for the OP is that he runs Windows 98. Both utilities only run on NT4,
2000
or XP.

Meindert

"Philippe" wrote in message
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I think I was wrong
what I need is a serial splitter
that works with windows 98SE

Exactly! :-)

Meindert

Maybe the solution is to upgrade to windows 2000
I have a 450 Mhz processor
gr
Philippe

"Meindert Sprang" schreef in bericht
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"Philippe" wrote in message
...
I think I was wrong
what I need is a serial splitter
that works with windows 98SE

Exactly! :-)

Meindert

"Philippe" wrote in message
...
Maybe the solution is to upgrade to windows 2000
I have a 450 Mhz processor

Definately a good idea. I have had Windows 2000 running on a 450MHz system,
and it was considerably faster than Windows 98 on an 800MHz machine.

Meindert

Philippe wrote:
Maybe the solution is to upgrade to windows 2000
I have a 450 Mhz processor
gr
Philippe

That's a good idea, there is a lot more ongoing development of software
and drivers and stuff in w2k than in 98se.

I did a search for a freeware virtual serial port program when this
thread started the other day and was surprised that I could not find one
for windows 98. There was quite a few for 2000 and XP and maybe even a
freeware or lower cost shareware one.

When you go to w2k (try a Workstation version, stay away from Server
editions) spend a little time getting everything in the Windows Classic
display mode, and turn off all the Display as a web page stuff. With
that and a few more tweaks, it will look almost exactly like Windows 98.

Another advantage of w2k is the ability to better control some of the
finer aspects of networking and the various services that were much more
obscure under 98se. As an example, for the most part, popup ads can be
controlled by turning off services that you probably don't want or need
anyway. And in w2k, the Administrative Tools allow you to look at and
control many aspects of your hardware and software.

Good luck with that!

Jack

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Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jacker at midmaine dot com

Philippe wrote:

I think I was wrong
what I need is a serial splitter
that works with windows 98SE
gr
Ph.

If you're an advanced programmer, here is an explanation that will help
you write your own:

http://www.netrino.com/Connecting/2000-02/

Pretty interesting explanation.

Jack

--
Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jacker at midmaine dot com

"Jack Erbes" wrote in message
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Philippe wrote:

I think I was wrong
what I need is a serial splitter
that works with windows 98SE
gr
Ph.

If you're an advanced programmer, here is an explanation that will help
you write your own:

http://www.netrino.com/Connecting/2000-02/

Being a programmer in this example is not enough, they also use a PCI
interface chip to mimic the registers of a serial port. This is a solution
that would even take a few days to weeks for an experienced hardware and
software engineer.

To write an entire software solution, it would take about 2 weeks for an
experienced programmer. And experienced in this case means that he has
experience in writing device drivers in Windows, which is an art on its own.

Meindert

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:36:30 +0200, "Philippe"
wrote:

I think I was wrong
what I need is a serial splitter
that works with windows 98SE
gr
Ph.

"Philippe" schreef in bericht
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I tried
Virtual Serial Ports Driver XP 4.0 from Eltima Software
http://www.eltima.com/products/vspdxp/
Platforms "Virtual Serial Ports Driver XP" is compatible with:
Windows XP
Windows NT 4.x
Windows Me
Windows 98
Windows 95
it does not work
greetings
Philippe

My bad. I told you to search on "virtual serial ports" because the
people who do what you are looking for generally call it that.
GPSGate, VirtualPlex, OckamSoft, and others use the terminology. Even
the Eltima Serial Splitter product refers to the ports it creates as
virtual serial ports. As you've realized, Eltima's VSPD does
something else entirely. The "terminology collision" is unfortunate.

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