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Hi,

I need to get some form of a serial port analyzer. Its not for use forever, just need to fix a problem with an app that uses the serial port.

Somehow, I would like to capture data and, if possible, view it in ascii.

A quick search reveals lots of software applications which appear to be the type one would load onto the PC with the questionable port, it runs in the background, captures data in and out of that port for, I assume, a preset amount of time or data.

These apps monitor the port on the PC they run on, no other hardware required?

I have never used one like this before.

It would be ideal if I could just load this app and monitor that PC's serial port, and even better if it could give me a dump of the traffic in ascii text.

There are so many of these little apps, I also would like to know if anyone has used one of the freebie, or fairly cheap ones ($50) as it would be nice to know that what I am trying is something known to actually work.

Thanks for any advice,

Mark

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singlewchildren
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HHD Software has some very nice serial monitoring and analysis applications. Serial Monitor Lite is right in your specified price range at about USD $45.

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I've used Serial Monitor with excellent results. Darn good UI, clean monitoring, good stuff.

Happy hunting.

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Dr. Anton T. Squeegee

If you have two serial ports on your PC try TAL's serial breakout, its free.

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Reply to
Deefoo

There is a free application on the internet called portmon. It might give you the data you want.

Reply to
Si Ballenger

Thanks a lot. I found it, and it seems to be what I need. I am now able to progress through this problem, and its so much nicer than guessing :-)

I appreciate everyone's input on this. I actually found several pretty nice apps, but forgot to mention that the machine is running NT 4.0, which left out a number of programs that I think looked pretty slick when I tried them on my Win2K machine first.

Much obliged for everyone's time.

Mark

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singlewchildren

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