title: Faking an RS232 Serial Port
body: <p>I'm developing a project that has a number of hardware sensors connecting to the deployment machine through RS232 serial ports.</p>
  
  <p>But ... I'm developing on a machine without an physical RS232 serial ports, but I would like to make fake serial ports that I can connect to and output data from with the aim of faking input from hardware sensors.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know of a way to create a fake serial port and control it on Windows XP? </p>