Serial port (/dev/ttySX) question.

Mikkel mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Sat Jan 30 13:41:33 UTC 2010


On 01/29/2010 10:19 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> rs-232 tech is getting old, like me.
> 
> Do we have a tool that can display graphically in near real time, the status 
> of the commonly used wires/signals in the '7 wire' protocol?
> 
> I need something that works a bit like the old db25 tester with a bunch of 
> LED's to tally the line states like that gismo Radio Shack sold 20 years ago.
> Those blinking leds were a very good troubleshooting tool, and I'm having 
> flow control problems that look like a system freeze on one end or the other, 
> but when rz times out, I still get a prompt from the shell on the other end, 
> but nothing I type here arrives there, like hardware flow is still in effect 
> and turned off on one end or the other.
> 
> Thanks All for any hints.
> 
You can try statserial and see if it will do what you want. It is
even in the repos.

Mikkel
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