Re: Com port spying
- Posted by "Lucius L. Hilley III" <lhilley at CDC.NET> Jan 28, 2000
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If you had a 2nd computer then you could pass the data through it just like someone else was doing to be able to access a modem that wasn't really on that computer. Sorta fake it through. Then you could capture all the data passing THROUGH the port in both directions. Lucius L. Hilley III lhilley at cdc.net +----------+--------------+--------------+ | Hollow | ICQ: 9638898 | AIM: LLHIII | | Horse +--------------+--------------+ | Software | http://www.cdc.net/~lhilley | +----------+-----------------------------+ > ---------------------- Information from the mail header ----------------------- > Sender: Euphoria Programming for MS-DOS <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU> > Poster: The Johnson Family <thedjs at INAME.COM> > Subject: Com port spying > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > > > ------=_NextPart_000_0039_01BF6984.8F725EA0 > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I have fairly recently purchased a casio digital organiser (at the = > cheaper end), and it came with a PC interface. Unfortunately, I am = > rather dissapointed with the software it comes with, and I want to write = > my own. To do this, I first need to know how it communicates with the = > computer. Casio wont tell me, and nor will the people who wrote the = > software, so I am left trying to figure it out for myself. What I need = > for this is some way to spy on traffic entering and exiting the com = > port, and distinguish which is coming from the organiser, and which from = > the pc programme. In short, I need a com port spying programme. Of = > course, it has to be able to work around the fact that windows = > programmes lock the com port when using it. How can I do this in = > euphoria? > > Nick > > ------=_NextPart_000_0039_01BF6984.8F725EA0 > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > <HTML><HEAD> > <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = > http-equiv=3DContent-Type> > <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2014.210" name=3DGENERATOR> > <STYLE></STYLE> > </HEAD> > <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> > <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have fairly recently purchased a = > casio digital=20 > organiser (at the cheaper end), and it came with a PC interface. = > Unfortunately,=20 > I am rather dissapointed with the software it comes with, and I want to = > write my=20 > own. To do this, I first need to know how it communicates with the = > computer.=20 > Casio wont tell me, and nor will the people who wrote the software, so I = > am left=20 > trying to figure it out for myself. What I need for this is some way to = > spy on=20 > traffic entering and exiting the com port, and distinguish which is = > coming from=20 > the organiser, and which from the pc programme. In short, I need a com = > port=20 > spying programme. Of course, it has to be able to work around the fact = > that=20 > windows programmes lock the com port when using it. How can I do this in = > > euphoria?</FONT></DIV> > <DIV> </DIV> > > ------=_NextPart_000_0039_01BF6984.8F725EA0-- >