NB. This driver only works on Windows XP.
This Driver, BPQVirtualCOM.sys, provides emulated(virtual) COM ports which are used by the BPQ TNC2 emulator to allow a program which was designed to talk to a standard TNC via a standard serial port to be used with the BPQ32 node.
The driver is loaded as part of the operating system. It can support up to 10 Virtual COM ports, from the range COM1 to COM255. The devices themselves can either be created when the system is loaded, or dynamically added and deleted by the application as required. The driver is installed by running the program LOADDEVICE. BPQVirtualCOM.sys must be in the current directory when LOADDEVICE is run. Once installed, it will be loaded each time the system is booted. It can be uninstalled by running program UNLOADDEVICE.
Program "VCOM Config" is used to display the currently defined Virtual COM ports (either permanent or dynamically defined), dynamically to add or delete ports, and to set up permanent ports.
The ten boxes show the currently defined ports (both static and dynamically added). To create a new port, type the number into the lower box, and click "Add". To delete a port, type its number into the lower box, and click "Delete". To save the current configuration, so it will be restored when the system reboots, click "Save". Please note that the current version does not check whether a real COM port exists before creating a Virtual Port. So if your computer has a real COM1, you can still create a Virtual COM1. However, the chances are that neither will work.
Acknowledgement.
BPQVirtualCOM was based on ComEmulDrv serial port bridge driver, Copyright (c) 2002 MixW team http://www.mixw.net.