I know Dan Ingalls was using a serial to USB box, has lots of horror  
stories
about software in such devices. I build a new VM years ago for him which
support many more than 2 serial devices.

Now if the device supports Carbon applications, the current Squeak VM  
just
asks the communications manager to iterate over the devices that support
serial and gets a list back.

I'll look later for more info. Also see

MidiPrimTester new getPortList




On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 09:10  AM, Ned Konz wrote:

> I just got a USB-to-serial adapter and would like to use it with
> Squeak. However, I can't see the serial port using the built-in
> SerialPort class. It's evident that the MacOS serial support doesn't
> know about arbitrary serial devices in the /dev/ directory.
>
> The adapter appears as /dev/usbserial-something.
>
> Is there some way I can make this work? I've tried the released
> version of 3.4-1 Mac OS/X VM.
>
> I also downloaded Ian's 3.5devel Unix version, but it needed a library
> that I didn't have (libiconv). And since I was on the end of a 28Kbps
> link, I didn't bother.
>
> Thanks,
> --  
> Ned Konz
> http://bike-nomad.com
> GPG key ID: BEEA7EFE
>
>
>
>
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