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Hyperterm Fun

ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
edited 2003-05-12 10:06 in General Discussion
I have read other posts relating to this problem but they all seem to
require a hardware solution....

I have a MotorMind C carrier board. It has a BS2 on it. I am trying
to user the serin command to get in two words from the Serial cable
to the PC. I have gotten both Serin and Serout to work perfectly
with the debugger window provided with the editor. However
hyperterminal set up to 9600 -8n1 doesn't not seem work. I used a
serial port monitoring program to watch what goes on between the
carrier board and debugger and then also the hyperterm and carrier.
The data sent is exactly the same. It just seems that the board
isn't listening to anything but the debugger window.

The only thing I can figure is that Serin is not being used
correctly. I have systematically done SERIN 16, 16468 ....
and all other pins instead of 16 but nothing works.

The end result is that I must use a write command from vxworks and
the board must listen. But if i can't even get hyperterm, tera term
pro, crt, etc to work, there is no use.

Thankyou

Chris

Comments

  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-05-12 10:06
    I spent AGES mucking about with hyperterminal with the same problem
    but it wasn't fun!
    In the end I wrote a for-next loop to send values 0-255 to
    hyperterminal, it did not capture 256 bytes!
    It appears Hyperterminal will ALWAYS interpret some data as contol
    codes, no matter how you set it up, so if you happen to be sending
    one of these data data values you are stuffed! Either modify what you
    are sending or use another program. I found a program
    called "Realterm" from http://realterm.sourceforge.net. This can be
    set up to capture avery byte in a data stream including those pesky
    control codes. It does lots more too!
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