DOS Commands 1

[acewarlock]

It's been more than 20 years since I used DOS Commands. What I want to do is hook a serial port output from a phone system to a PC COM1 port and creat a file and capture all the info that come out of the phone system. I kind of remember there was somthing like COM1,9600,8,n,1 for the port on the PC, but like I said it's beeen a long time.

 

[EBGreen]

What OS? I don't know that this would be possible through a batch file on a windows box. I may be wrong though. I'll look into it if I get a chance.

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[zeitghost]

I used to use procomm for this sort of thing.

You can set the baud rate etc. using the mode command, but generally you'll need some sort of program to read the serial port.

And one that uses interrupts to get any sort of speed.

 

[acewarlock]

I use Procomm on my computer, but this is for a laptop in the phone room and I just want to capture CRD to it to show the Boss how it works, but they don't want to spring for the cost of Procomm for a test.

 

[acewarlock]

PS This is a Win2000. I was going to use CMD mode to get to the DOS commands.

 

[zeitghost]

hyperterminal?

Can that save incoming data to a file?

 

[MiggyD]

Did you mean to use QBasic such as in this?

CLS
Term$ = ""
CPort& = 1
COM(1) ON
PRINT "Press any key to end program"
INPUT "Press <RETURN> to start", Test$
PRINT
OPEN "com1:9600,n,8,1" FOR INPUT AS #11
OPEN "myfile.txt" FOR OUTPUT AS #10
DO
ON COM(1) GOSUB RiteIO
LOOP WHILE INKEY$ = ""
COM(1) OFF
PRINT
PRINT "Test done"
CLOSE
END

RiteIO:
    INPUT #11, CPort&
    PRINT #10, STR$(CPort&)
    PRINT STR$(CPort&)
RETURN

PS: It's just an example. I haven't tried this.



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[acewarlock]

MiggyD that's what I was looking for. Thanks