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This tool deals with low-level serial communications and gives you direct access to the API.
You can use left/right arrows on top of screen to browse serial devices. Hard keys down/up do the same job.
You have to manually open a port before you can send or receive data. Browsing to another device automatically closes current device.

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Top half of the screen shows device information:
 Info: port name
 Creator: physical name of port
 Cradle: port is the cradle connector
 RS232: hardware has RS-232 line drivers
 IRDA: serial hardware has IR line and is IRDA capable
 Modem: serial hardware can drive modem
 Visible: connection panel in preferences will show this device
 MaxBaud: maximum transfer rate
 HandshakeBaud: it is advised to use handshaking for this rate and higher

Bottom half of the screen allows you to establish a dialog over the open port:
 Enter a command to send over the port and tap [Send]
 Incoming text is displayed in the scrolling field

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 Port allows you to configure, open, check, flush and close the current port
 Edit is self-explanatory
 Options allows to specify if you want CR, LF, CR+LF or None appended to the command upon sending. Default is CR+LF.

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This tool comes with a small Java companion program for desktop that listens on a socket, waits for commands ('date', 'time' or 'ls') and sends a reply. Port number must be supplied as an argument to the class. Useful for testing/debugging purposes, especially with POSE. Make sure POSE's serial port is set to TCP/IP and port numbers match.


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