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arulthas
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1. Serial Port Tester
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Hi all,

Is there software for OS/2 to check whether Serial Port is functioning?

Thank you.

Best regards,
Arulthas.

Date: 20 Aug, 2004 on 04:16
TimC
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You might try "Modem Dr." which, IIRC, goes by the name MDR as the filename prefix for the zip file it's usually downloadable as.

The MDR utility is a DOS utility but runs fine under OS/2 in a DOS window or fullscreen session. Just make sure you have the "DOS" serial port driver (VCOM.SYS) loaded from your CONFIG.SYS as well as the OS/2 serial port driver (COM.SYS). VCOM.SYS should make the serial ports visible to DOS applications if they're "available" ... I/O ports, IRQ addresses, and COM ports.

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Date: 21 Aug, 2004 on 02:28
arulthas
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TimC (21 Aug, 2004 02:2:
You might try "Modem Dr." which, IIRC, goes by the name MDR as the filename prefix for the zip file it's usually downloadable as.

The MDR utility is a DOS utility but runs fine under OS/2 in a DOS window or fullscreen session. Just make sure you have the "DOS" serial port driver (VCOM.SYS) loaded from your CONFIG.SYS as well as the OS/2 serial port driver (COM.SYS). VCOM.SYS should make the serial ports visible to DOS applications if they're "available" ... I/O ports, IRQ addresses, and COM ports.


Good day TimC,

Modem Doctor is a shareware version which capable in identifying serial ports but to perform a loop back test, license version is required. As an alternative testing I use Serial Mouse and it works as expected.

We shall close this issue.

Thanks for the help.

Best regards,
Arulthas.

Date: 23 Aug, 2004 on 03:00
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There is a program in the sio2k distribution zip named logger.exe.
Excerpt from logger.txt in sio2k package, (delivered with eCs too)
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The basic way to execute logger is to type LOGGER COM1 at an eCS command line prompt. If you want the logging information placed into a disk file then execute LOGGER COMn x:\path\FILENAME.LOG. In this case the
information is both displayed and placed into the file FILENAME.LOG.
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The command you can use in startup.cmd file is:
start /c /win /min c:\sio2k\logger com1 c:\sio2k\logcom1.log".

Perhaps this programm is helpfull for you

Date: 23 Aug, 2004 on 16:02
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