Re: logging serial port transmissions

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

Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:56:28 -0000

> 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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