How to create a virtual serial port?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-04-11, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> In article <6LGdnSbyPsL1fX3UnZ2dnUVZ_uqdnZ2d at pdx.net>,
>  Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org> wrote:
>> This part I actually understand.  The OP has a program named
>> "RouteBuddy" that talks to a device over a serial port, and he
>> want to repalce the data stream coming from that device.  My
>> question is, "where does the device that he wants to replace
>> plug in?"  I don't see anywhere on my laptop I could plug in
>> anything but a USB connector, an ethernet connector, a firewire
>> connector, headphones, speakers, a display connector, or a
>> power cord.
>
> A number of vendors (Keyspan, Belkin) make USB serial ports.  FWIW, I 
> use one here on this iMac and OS X with screen(1) and a null modem cable 
> to act as a serial console for a headless Linux box.

True, but that doesn't help the OP, where the data is coming
into the OS-X machine via a network connection.

-- 
Grant