How to create a virtual serial port?

[Scott David Daniels]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> ...If he was going to plug the device into a real serial port on
> the machine inquestion, then he wouldn't need a virtual serial
> port.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> He's not trying to plug the device into your laptop.

Yup.  It seems to me you could write a slug to talk USB driver
to OS/X, but if it were really sending I/O instructions to an
on-board chip, I would say there was no hope.  That is why I
was trying to figure that out.

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org