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From: Richard.Milward@samba.acs.unc.edu (Richard Milward)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: re: RS-232 port monitor software
Keywords: TSR, assembler, RS-232
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Date: 21 Nov 90 14:23:13 GMT
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Gordon Lee (gordon@vaxeline.ftp.com) asked in article 1922 about
software for an IBM-PC clone that would monitor his RS-232 port.
I took this to mean "display the state of the control lines",
and sent him BRKBOX.ASM, a program I got somewhere, sometime :-)
that does this.  It's a small TSR (source is around 7.5K with
fairly extensive comments, ~300 lines).  Hot-key activated,
*doesn't* display the state of RXD/TXD (not fast enough I guess),
and it works -- I've used it.  BUT, I don't know (yet) how to
post it :-(  However, if anyone wants it, email me (please don't
post to the newsgroup!), and I'll send it along via a method I
*do* know.  (This BBS software I'm reading & posting thru sticks
me in vi, which I don't know very well.)
--Richard Milward / network tech / Univ. North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  bitnet: UMLWRD@UNC.BITNET (or to the Reply address)
  "Service without slogans."