May be easer to make a physical sniffer cable that "T's" in to the com you are trying to sniff and connect the other end to a laptop running linux and log with cutecom or similar terminal program. I had a fancy cable made that split the transmit and receive line split to 2 separate 9pin sub Ds and was able to log data going in each direction separately. Was quite handy at the time.
On 15-04-19 08:24 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > I need a DOS COM port logger that will write to the log file as it > monitors and that can handle being cut off by a shut down or reboot. > Need to be able to run it with command line switches to tell it which > port to log to a file then have no further interaction with the logger. > > In other words it must stream to disk in a manner that a sudden, > unexpected stop doesn't corrupt the log or leave it empty. > > Why? Because the old DOS software for the PLM2000 will not exit or quit. > It just ignores the command. The only ways to quit are hold the power > button until it shuts off or CtrlAltDel. (Gotta love it when companies > just discontinue a product with a major bug like that left unfixed.) > > Just got done trying a program called comshow. It created a log file > with no contents. I presume because I could not exit the CNC software to > re-run comshow to tell it to dump its log to disk. > > I setup a 256 meg USB stick to boot a laptop to Win98 DOS to try this. > I've also setup an old 433Mhz Celeron box with Win95 to try running the > CNC program under Windows. Can run a COM logger there and just kill the > CNC without also hacking off the logger. > > Just need to get the mill moved to a more permanent location so I can > put the PC next to it. > > All this just so hopefully it can be figured out how to control this old > milling machine with LCNC. > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > http://www.avast.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT > Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard > Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises > http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ > source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
