From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   This could be a double post.   
      
   Bochs could be designed to point a com port   
   To a host file.   
      
   The pdos application could do fopen of com1 r+b   
      
   Pdos will dutifully translate that into reads and writes of the com port.   
      
   If the app does an fseek to an earlier position   
   an initialization of the com port could be   
   done which Bochs interprets as a rewind.   
      
   Pdos would then do reads to get to the right position.   
      
   Tape drives may behave similarly.   
      
   Is there some principle here?   
      
   It won't work if the com port is connected to another computer though.   
      
   Although maybe if dtr/dcd were manipulated it could.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)