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Technical Support
TCP-Com is a very simple
program and we do not have any tech issues or notes for it. It is
designed to make RS232 serial data available at a network IP address or
make TCP/IP network data available on a serial port. The on-line help in
the program should be more than adequate for explaining how to use the
program.
The only issue that we commonly run
into is confusion as to what you can do with TCP-Com. We are often
asked is TCP-Com can "Virtualize" a serial port. Users have existing
software that communicates through a serial port and they want to
get data from a TCP/IP network port address into that software. In
other words, they want TCP/IP data to appear as if it were being
transmitted and received through a "Virtual" serial port so that
their existing serial communications software talk to a TCP/IP port.
TCP-Com does not do this. It transmits and receives data through a
real serial port (i.e. com 1, com 2, etc.) and does not create a
virtual one.
You can use TCP-Com to accomplish
this type of functionality however the trick to doing it is to use
two serial ports with a Null modem cable connecting the two serial
port to each other. You would run TCP-Com on one serial port thereby
linking that serial port to a TCP/IP port and then you would run
your existing serial communications software on the other serial
port. When data is transmitted from the serial communications
program, it would go out its serial port and then immediately back
in the other serial port into TCP-Com which would then send the data
out the TCP/IP port. Data coming in the TCP/IP port would likewise
go out the serial port that TCP-Com is running on and immediately
back in the other serial port to the serial communications program.
If you are looking for software to
create a "virtual" serial port that is really a connection to a TCP/IP
port, please visit http://www.tacticalsoftware.com. They sell a
program called DialOut/IP that is designed specifically for this
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