OT: modern and Classic RS232 debuggers

On Tue, 2005-05-10 10:17:25 -0400, John Allain <allain at panix.com> wrote: The Linux-based OS "Debian" ships with a package called 'snooper', which reads as if it could fulfill your needs: $ apt-cache show snooper Package: snooper Priority: optional Section: comm Installed-Size: 38 Maintainer: David Coe <davidc at debian.org> Architecture: i386 Version: 19991202-3 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13), liblockdev1, libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-1) Filename: pool/main/s/snooper/snooper_19991202-3_i386.deb Size: 15216 MD5sum: 2896d70d54ffdfafe59016242fc19d59 Description: Captures communication between two external serial devices Snooper passes data transparently between two serial (RS232C) devices, capturing and logging the data and occasional comments you want to insert into the logs. . It is useful for debugging or analyzing the communications protocol between two devices that would normally be connected directly to each other, e.g. a digital camera and a personal computer. By sitting "in the middle" (after you connect the two devices to serial ports on your Linux machine) snooper is able to capture data traveling in either direction while also passing it unmodified to the other device. . It is also possible to operate with a single serial device, using your console and keyboard as the second device. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw at lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B?rger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));