>> I have had a look at the C source (did you download that?)
>> and pondered wether it would compile in C18 with minimal errors.
>
>Actually, I did. One monolithic blob of code. Ewww. I'm not
>sure if I was looking at the right block of code, but the
>command interpreter seemed to be a lump of strcmp()s.
>Double EWW! (I'd have used an FSM).

<VBG> I have only scanned it by opening in an editor. I couldn't easily see
where the entry point was, so appreciate your reaction.

>> The hardest part would then be to make the 18F4550 look
>> like an FTDI 245, unless one felt like writing the driver as well.
>
>Why not use Microchip's "CDC" driver and appnote code?
>Make the PIC look like a COM port to the PC, then just
>tweak the LabView driver to look for the Microchip driver
>instead of the FTDI one.

Yes that is looking more what will happen, as people have explained the
innards of USB in this thread. 'Twill be my first foray into USB (apart from
using some FTDI chips in Wouters kits).

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