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Started by d000hg February 01, 2008 08:41 AM

2 comments, last by AndreiVictor 16 years, 2 months ago

d000hg

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February 01, 2008 08:41 AM

I have a bit of work to do with commanding some equipment through the serial port. I've been told you can get dummy serial drivers which will take whatever you send out of a serial port, and pipe it back in to the same port - allowing you to test the actual read/write functionality. Can anyone recommend one? I'm developing in C++ on Windows XP.

d000hg

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February 02, 2008 10:45 AM

Anyone?

Antheus

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February 02, 2008 11:01 AM

That's what loop-back connectors are usually for. There's software variants, but I wouldn't know for Windows, I've only dealt with serial ports under Linux.