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Parallax Serial Terminal that allows writing to a file

JkaneJkane Posts: 113
edited 2014-09-27 13:28 in Propeller 1
Hello,

I was wondering if there is a version of the parallax serial terminal that allows all the data received to be written to a file? The max lines for the parallax serial terminal program seems to be 8192, I have about 100,000 lines during a test run and I need to record the entire session.

i suppose that I could use hyper terminal or something like, I just was looking for options, the enviroment is windows, or just modify a standard serial point and connect it to the propeller with two pins and a ground

regards

Jeff

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  • RaymanRayman Posts: 14,654
    edited 2014-09-26 13:09
    That would be nice...

    I've got some old code here that lets you save data to a file using HyperTerminal and Ymodem:
    http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/102375-YModem-(alpha)

    Be nice if PST would let you log session data.
    Even nicer if you could invoke the start and end of saving data to a file from the Propeller side....
  • Dave HeinDave Hein Posts: 6,347
    edited 2014-09-26 13:11
    I've used Hyper Terminal to log serial data to files. I believe putty will also do this.
  • JkaneJkane Posts: 113
    edited 2014-09-26 17:37
    Dave Hein wrote: »
    I've used Hyper Terminal to log serial data to files. I believe putty will also do this.

    yes, the standard PST with logging abilities would be cool, I might try the parallax data logger, I purchased one so I think it is worth a shot.

    thanks for the info.

    regards

    Jeff
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2014-09-26 18:50
    Putty is one of my favorite terminal programs. It offers logging and many other features ... maybe too many for some users. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
  • Mark_TMark_T Posts: 1,981
    edited 2014-09-26 19:11
    In Linux the screen program can all toggle outputing to a file, take a textual screenshot.
    You call it with a serial device and baudrate rather than a command:

    screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

    C-a K to kill the session
    C-a H to toggle writing a logfile
    C-a h to dump a hardcopy of current windowful.
  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    edited 2014-09-26 19:29
    This one is a no-brainer, always use the current TeraTerm version, it does the lot and better than the rest. Even if it you didn't tell it to log you can set it to remember the last 10,000 lines or whatever.

    In Linux I just use minicom, it does it all too.
  • JkaneJkane Posts: 113
    edited 2014-09-27 13:28
    Thanks everyone,

    There seem to be many choices, I'll try a few.

    regards

    Jeff
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