Soft printer on serial port

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Stephane Gagnon

I am looking for an application (on PC) able of interpreting text messages (ASCII) sent on the serial port of a PC and to record them in a text file. In made, I want to replace the matrix alarms printer by a software tool. I know that OSI PI System can offer this type of tool, but I'm looking for more cheaper solution.

Does anybody know this type of product?

Thanks,
 
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Curt Wuollet

Does it have to reside on the same PC? If not, you can do this with many terminal emulators or a fairly simple program or even a shell script. Kermit, for example, can be started with logging enabled and will write all data received to a file. I typically use a small C program so I can filter out all the garbage and format the data.

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Michael Griffin

I don't know what you mean by "interpret", but most terminal emulators can capture files and write them to disk.

If that doesn't do what you want, writing a simple serial capture program is rather easy. You won't get much cheaper than that.
 
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