Re: logging serial port transmissions

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From: Andrew Jackson (alj_at_nospam.com)
Date: 12/07/04

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    > Does Windows XP have a feature that logs serial port transmissions to
    > & from any connected device, not just modems? Do I need a special
    > program to do this? I have a Radio Shack PRO-95 frequency scanner
    > that can have its 1000 channels loaded from a serial port, but Radio
    > Shack won't give me the specs for reading and writing data to the
    > scanner. There is a program that will do this but it doesn't have
    > all the features I want, so I want to write my own but I need to know
    > the protocols for downloading and uploading channels to the scanner.
    > I figure if I can log the data transmissions from this program, I
    > might be able to figure out the protocol so I can write my own
    > utility. Thanks...
    >
    "portmon" from SysInternals (www.sysinternals.com) lets you capture from
    serial ports, parallel ports and log all the resulting data to a file. Logs
    record all serial IOCTLs so can be voluminous. Very useful though.

        Andrew

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