>Hi.
>I'm in the porcess of developing a screen which sends control characters and text to an industrial machine via the serial port.
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>The first thing I want to do is ensure the characters I am sending are getting out my serial port.
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>Anybody know of any way/ utility to see the characters coming out of a serial port?
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>Regards,
>
>Gerard

We always used to use a dumb terminal to check the output. We always had many of these just lying around, but that's probably not the case any more. If you have a laptop or another PC, you can connect to it and fire up the HyperTerminal application and do pretty much the same thing.