I'd like to get some suggestion on terminal emulators, to avoid=20 running into this problem. Any ideas? For linux i know minicom And for windows? I have heard of TeraTerm, but never used it. Any comments con this one?=20 Is there another (free) one? El 04-10-2010 11:31, M. Adam Davis escribi=F3: > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:54 PM, William "Chops" Westfield > wrote: >> I do have to admit that a lot of the software development practices I >> used to think were "normal" early in my career, now seem extremely >> primitive and naive... > Exactly, and further how would we expect people new to embedded > development to understand, nevermind plan for, these problems? > > A lot of embedded code is written by programmers who are used to > deterministic systems programming - where the memory never fails, the > processor never goes off into the weeds, and TCP/IP gaurantees data > transmission without errors, or at least notice that the socket has > closed. > > The article points to a fairly basic error that would easily be caught > quickly by a seasoned engineer carefully plodding through the > debugging process, but that doesn't mean it doesn't bear mentioning. > > Experience is what someone gains when they don't listen to advice. > > -Adam --=20 Lorenzo Luengo Contreras Ingeniero Civil Electr=F3nico Laboratorio MIDGEO (LF-106) Facultad de Ciencias F=EDsicas y Matem=E1ticas Universidad de Concepci=F3n Concepci=F3n - Chile +56-41-2207400 http://midgeo.udec.cl --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .