MB>
  >  JN> Ok, I would like connect my mailer to the TCP/IP stack.
  >
  > Aha!  You are not the first person to have this idea.  [...]
  > [...] Ring 3 services daemon [...] the driver and the TCP/IP
  > stack, since you cannot call the TCP/IP socket interface directly
  > from the Ring 0 driver [...]
MB>

  If the mailer supports naming COM ports (rather than just numbering
  them), then an easier approach would be to write a small named pipe
  server that shifted data between the named pipe and a TCP connection.

  The mailer could then simply be pointed at the client end of the named
  pipe.

  Unfortunately, it seems that mailers whose origins were in DOS are still
  lumbered with the stupid DOS legacy that they number their COM ports.

  > JdeBP <
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