On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 22:08 -0800, John Pearson wrote:
> If I have a PC program that accesses a serial port. I have a PC with no serial port, but do have a USB port. Can I make the USB port into a serial port with one of those USB/serial port adaptors. The question is can I make the program send and recieve data to the USB port when no serial port is present.

The answer is often yes, depending on the program.

What kind of program is it? Win32? DOS?

If it accesses the serial port using Win32 API functions, and doesn't
rely on the timing of signals on the serial port (i.e. bit twiddling the
control lines) it SHOULD work fine.

They're so cheap these days, buy one and try it out.

TTYL

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