Seems to me that someone makes a program that outputs to the screen in
different colors for each end, each character, each control line change,
etc. etc.  Know I've been offered that at a sizable price, could be
shareware for that on simtel.net possibly;  I should go look for one.
http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/msdos/commprog-pre.html is likely.

If you're good with Serial programming, do what I usually do - build
into your program, code to write a text log file out with time stamping
and source etc., I find that log files are more storable than a
graphical display, they can help provide evidence of bugs in other
peoples' hardware/firmware even if the bug's spoor is rather large and
diffuse, too.  (Don't try to hire me to work with Process Basic
firmware, unless I get to FIX the durn stuff, seen more problems in that
stuff than I'd like to ever meet again <G>)  Should re-do that code some
time here, only as a Dos app, keep needing it.  "Never time to do it
right, just to do it again", huh?!

  Mark

tenaglia@BIGFOOT.COM wrote:
> Hi Adam
>
> I full agree with you; actually I use a single inexpensive 486 - 66Mhz and i
> see the serial of TX and RX traking using the COM1: and the COM2: but the
> problem that I have is to see the temporal correlation between the two
> signaling.
>
> For example if  I have a fast polling and immediate replay of the device, I
> cannot see the correlation between the polling ask caracter and the
> correlate answer caracter.
>
> The problem is related to the sniffing program that I use, for  example if
> the program was able to show with separate color the TX and the RX on the
> same line I can easily understand the calling caracter and the answer
> caracter.
>
> Ciao
>
> Leoo
>
> > When I needed to spy on serial communications, I used a seperate computer
> with
> > two serial ports.  It ran a program that shuttled the info from one
> interface to
> > the other, and vice versa.  You could easily add a $10 two serial port
> card to
> > you computer and do it with one computer, which gives you some advantages
> over
> > programs which insert themselves into the serial stream (like COMMCHK)
> >
> > -Adam
> >
> > tenaglia@BIGFOOT.COM wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi PICer friends,
> > >
> > > actually I use the COMMCHK program to check the data transfer between my
> PIC
> > > software and the external device with my full satisfaction, until today.
> > >
> > > Today I have used the COMMCHK to see the data interchange between two
> > > device, and now the COMMCHK show its limits. I can see on the two
> windows
> > > the transmits and the receive without temporal advice. In other word I
> > > cannot see the call, the answer and other related command, sensing and
> > > information exchange and its correlation in timing.
> > >
> > > Someone of as use similar serial port scope program able to show the
> time
> > > correlation between transmit and receive??
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Ciao
> > >
> > > Leo
> >

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