[aprssig] Com port sharing utility

[Rich Garcia]

2 comm ports, surely you must be kidding ?

Does anyone make a laptop with a comm port anymore ? I have
a handfull of USB dongles but I hate them. Claude is lucky to
have one serial port. We just purchased 20 laptops at work and
of all the ones we checked only one had a honest to goodness serial port.
Go figure the one laptop that was not approved by our IT for
purchase!

Everything from here on in has got to be USB or use a USB dongle, the serial
port is going just like the 286. Few and far between, BTW if anyone
has a 286 laptop they are ready to trash give me a call. I can use one
for my old Motorola software. Once my old 286 desktop goes so does my
ability to program most of the radios.



-----Original Message-----
From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org
[mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org]On Behalf Of Robert Bruninga
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 7:39 PM
To: 'TAPR APRS Mailing List'
Subject: RE: [aprssig] Com port sharing utility


I assume you do not have 2 comm ports, or you could just
parallel the two pin 2's and feed the GPS to both.  Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org
> [mailto:aprssig-bounces at lists.tapr.org] On Behalf Of Claude
Head III
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 6:37 PM
> To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
> Subject: [aprssig] Com port sharing utility
>
> I seem to remember comments on this SIG some time ago about a
> COM port sharing utility, whereby a single COM port could be
> used by two (or more) applications at the same time.
>
> My desire here is to use a Garmin GPS receiver to feed data
> to a DeLorme Street Atlas program and at the same time feed
> the GPS data to a program that would keep the computer (a
> Dell Latitude laptop) time correct. I have found an
> inexpensive program that will set the computer's time using
> GPS data, but it does not share access to the COM port.
>
> As mentioned earlier, I think I saw references to such a
> sharing program in this SIG some time ago. Does anyone
> remember that, or know of an inexpensive (preferably free)
> program? I've found a couple of such programs on the
> internet, but they are priced at $100 or more.
>
> Thanks in advance for any info.
>
> 73, Claude Head
>       K5DTN
>       Dallas, TX
>
>


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