- Is it possible to map the e.g. COM1 port traffic to another device, or
is it firmly assigned to matching RS232 interfaces of the Linux box? Ideally, I'd like to have the Windows app talk to an XPort device (remote RS232) connected over network. A program called "socat" (http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat) can be used to create a device and tunnel the traffic over a TCP port. I'd like to map that device to a windows-emulated COM port. Maybe this even eliminates problem 1).
I think you can redirect it to any file, no matter if it is a serial port, a file, a pipe, stdout, ...
No idea about the other problem though. I have never used that functionality of wine