Serial or comm port emulation?

[gold]

I am trying to create an emulator for many serial devices.  The devices communicate via serial (RS-422) over comm ports using Rocketport portserver.  To Windows and LV it appears that I just have 20 COMM ports. 

I don't want to use any hardware, no sends on COMM 2, receive on COMM 3, just 100% software? 

Any Ideas on how to make LV think its talking to a serial device when its actually talking to the emulator?  How to construct emulation?

[ShotSimon]

gold,

Don't know if this helps but I have read several threads that say this is possible with MS-DOS. 

I also found this application:  http://www.mks.zp.ua/vspdxp.php

This is a real interesting idea, I hope you figure it out.

Regards,

 -SS

[chrisger]

Hi there

Try this . http://com0com.sourceforge.net/

com0com enables you to direct the IO from one virtual COM - Port (e.g. COM10) to another virtual COM - Port (e.g. COM11) . Then you app writes to COM10 and hyperterminal or any other app reads the data from COM11 and vice versa.