Hi Mark,

due the list  on http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/msdos/commprog-pre.html in
long,
do you remember the name of the file rhat shoiw in different color the send
an receive??

Ciao

Leo

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Willis <mwillis@FOXINTERNET.NET>
To: <PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: About serial port scoping


> 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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