John, sorry if I repy only now, but I had not seen the mail... Well, I observe that your model is different from european models (mine is PVS460), so I 'm not absolutely sure that the OWBTerm works fine on your PV (see the release notes on the OWBasic site: http://pandora.inf.uni-jena.de/p/e/noo/owbasic/basic.html ). Obviously, you must sure that OWBasic is installed correctly before starting OWBTerm. However, if you are sure that the serial port on PV-S400 is working correctly, you can extract from OWBTerm only one line of code and try to write a simple minimal "Term" program (for example, changing the default speed value): srlopen 96,8,0,1,2 - that is 9600 baud / *data bits / no parity / 1 stop bit / Hardware RS/CS (as you can read on OWBasic Help). I think that 9600 baud is the default serial speed on PV, so if you start with this value no error wouldn't have to happen. Then, you can execute this file and try to send some characters from PC to the PV (Hyperterminal or, better, Tera Term pro) with the same settings. As I said in the mail, another free Terminal ( it works fien, better than OWBTerm but hasn't source code..) is PVTerminal: http://www.hometeam.de/en/projekte/pvterminal/ good luck Marco ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Pearson" To: Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 12:55 AM Subject: Re: [EE]:PDA be a DOS terminal, like Hyperterminal? > Marco, > Okay, I have a "cheap" Casio PV-S400Plus (I like it better than my Palm, and > at 1/3 the price!). I have tried the OWBterm, because I can get into the > code, but I am having trouble with it because the serial open command gives > an error message "Wrong Parameters" at run time. Have you had this problem? > > Thanks > John > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marco Genovesi" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 6:52 AM > Subject: Re: [EE]:PDA be a DOS terminal, like Hyperterminal? > > > > I use a "cheap" Casio PVS460 as a RS232 interface for my PIC - datalogger. > > At the moment, I have found two free Terminal applications for these Casio > > models (OWBTerm - PVTerminal) at: > > http://www.pocket-viewer.com/software.htm (see "Communications"). > > > > The limit is that anyone of the two cannot save the data on the screen... > > (but the Casio SDK are free, so it isn't impossible to do a customized > > serial program ). > > > > If you use Palm and a "data download" is your focus, an useful program is > > "SerialGo" at: http://www.vista-software.com/serialgo.htm > > > > good luck > > Marco > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John Pearson" > > To: > > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 2:34 AM > > Subject: [EE]:PDA be a DOS terminal, like Hyperterminal? > > > > > > Can a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) like the Palm m100, be a terminal > for > > a serial > > device? Or should I ask, can any of the PDAs > > run software like Hyperterminal or other DOS terminal software for an > RS232 > > serial port? > > > > I would like to have an input/output for my serial device, and thought > that > > something like a Palm would be convenient. > > > > Thanks > > > > John > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList > > mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.