Hi, I don't understand why you involve a terminal emulator in the process. Do you need to see the data that goes through the COM port displayed in a terminal (like minicom)?
I do not understand what you are trying to do at all. Are you trying to print to a remote printer that has a serial port? For that, perhaps you could use a printserver with a serial port (if you can find one) or a printserver and an adapter from parallel to serial. If you're trying to create a two-way communication between a remote server and a remote client, with the client sending and receiving the data through its COM port (for some weird reason), you could do that over ethernet, using your own protocol or an existing one (maybe even xmpp). Unfortunately, COM ports have become quite rare :( On Sat, 2024-01-13 at 00:50 +0000, phoebus phoebus wrote: > Hello, > > > > Suggestion: Make another description of the challenge. > > > > > > Describe it as a travelling route. Spend effort on telling > > > what the endpoints were and are. > > > Our current starting point as being a third-party terminal emulator provided > by a licensed company. This emulator runs on an outdated version of Windows > and older Wyse versions and supports only the Telnet protocol, limiting our > ability to establish secure connections. > > Now, our mandatory choice, if no other alternative emerges is to upgrade our > infrastructure by transitioning to newer Wyse clients equipped with more > recent versions of Windows and migrating to the commercial emulator from the > same company (or another) which supports the SSH protocol and Passthrough > Printing. We aim to migrate to an open-source terminal emulator that supports > the Passthrough Printing, thereby offering improved security and this remains > our preferred path. > > Currently, PuTTY is an option but its current version has limitations that > make it insufficient for our operational use. > We have conducted research in our quest to find such an open-source emulator > with full Passthrough Printing, but thus far, we have been unable to identify > one that fully meets our needs. > > Best Regards, > Thierry >
