writing to another machine's /dev/ttyS0... how?

[Fraser Campbell]

On Monday 11 September 2006 09:19, William Park wrote:

> Is there an easy way to write to /dev/ttyS0 (dumb serial device)
> attached to another machine.  On that remote machine, I just do
>     cat ... > /dev/ttyS0
>
> But, how do I this from separate machine?  I guess, I can use 'inetd'
> method, but there has to be better way.

Wouldn't know what to suggest without some idea of why you want to write data 
to ttyS0 ... a script running under inetd seems like a good solution.

lpd print queues might be an option as well (if queueing is useful)???

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