On Mar 16, 2007, at 12:31 PM, James Newtons Massmind wrote:

> - Auto detected baud rate.
> - Parity.
> - Stop bits?

Sure.  The whole "mode" string if you can.

>
> - Last character through the cable at the auto detected rate?

Buffer as much data as possible, and have a way to display it at
human-readable rates...

> - "+DTR", "-CTS" etc... For 1 second after the signal asserts or is
> released.

Ok.


> - Blank display 2 seconds after the last signal goes through.
>
Rather than blank, it should revert to some sort of pin-state
display.  It would be nice if it sanity-checked your connections,
too, and produced some sort of warning if one of the data pins
had no driver attached (for example.)

BillW
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