"TheJouster" wrote in message
news:rnpqf.1916$km.835@edtnps89...
Thanks Jack, I actually tried Hyperterminal first with no luck but i didnt
do it like u explained, ill give that another try. I thought there may be
an
easy app to do it simpler.

Hyperterminal is crap. In 90% of the cases you start it when data comes in
on the comport. it says "cannot open com port". Then, if you need to change
comm parameters, you have to disconnect first, change the parameters and
connect again. And then there is this thing that you need to define a
connection first.

Do a google search for TeraTerm and you get a no-nonsense always working
terminal program.

Meindert

Meindert Sprang wrote:

Hyperterminal is crap...

Of course it is, it comes free with Windows. In the land of the blind a
one eyed terminal program is King. :)

Do a google search for TeraTerm and you get a no-nonsense always working
terminal program.

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html

Thanks for the reference, I'm surprised I have not found that (or its
Windows-CE version) before in my previous quests for terminal programs
for PCs and PDAs. I'm going to try it on Windows 2000 and a Pocket PC.
Have you used it on those?

As always the best way to pry knowledge out of the professionals is to
fumble around in their presence doing something the hard way.

Best of the Season to you Meindert! And thanks for your help here!

Jack

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Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA - jackerbes at adelphia dot net
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine.com)

"Jack Erbes" wrote in message
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http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html

Thanks for the reference, I'm surprised I have not found that (or its
Windows-CE version) before in my previous quests for terminal programs
for PCs and PDAs. I'm going to try it on Windows 2000 and a Pocket PC.
Have you used it on those?

I use it on W2K and it is the only terminal program I use. I do quite a lot
of embedded design where systems communicate through a serial port and I
always use TeraTerm for that.

As always the best way to pry knowledge out of the professionals is to
fumble around in their presence doing something the hard way.

That is a good one! :-))

Best of the Season to you Meindert! And thanks for your help here!

Thanks and all the best to you too Jack!

Meindert