Protocol Terminal
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I find I am always writing protocols to talk to lots of different scientific and industrial instruments. The quality of the documentation on these protocols varies widely. More often to the worse side. They often take a lot of experimentation to understand them. Originally they were over com ports. Now they are often over Ethernet. Often they use their old com port protocol over Ethernet. I need a terminal program that will show non-printable characters. It should also have function buttons to type strings that contain non-printable characters. I have looked for years but never found any thing. Does anyone know if one exists?
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
Take a look at www.Simplecomtools.com - TCP Test Tool. Has worked well for me. Freeware - Simple Com Tools[^]
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I find I am always writing protocols to talk to lots of different scientific and industrial instruments. The quality of the documentation on these protocols varies widely. More often to the worse side. They often take a lot of experimentation to understand them. Originally they were over com ports. Now they are often over Ethernet. Often they use their old com port protocol over Ethernet. I need a terminal program that will show non-printable characters. It should also have function buttons to type strings that contain non-printable characters. I have looked for years but never found any thing. Does anyone know if one exists?
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
If you want to go old-school and just look at raw hex, stick with RealTerm[^]. I've used it for years, it's open source. A bit wonky, but super powerful, supports scripting, dumping to a file, etc. But recently, I just discovered Device Monitoring Studio[^]. It's not expensive and extremely powerful. It plugs into your serial port driver so that you can see outgoing and incoming traffic, with hex display. You can color code your packets by protocol and create your own.
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I find I am always writing protocols to talk to lots of different scientific and industrial instruments. The quality of the documentation on these protocols varies widely. More often to the worse side. They often take a lot of experimentation to understand them. Originally they were over com ports. Now they are often over Ethernet. Often they use their old com port protocol over Ethernet. I need a terminal program that will show non-printable characters. It should also have function buttons to type strings that contain non-printable characters. I have looked for years but never found any thing. Does anyone know if one exists?
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
If you want to go old-school and just look at raw hex, stick with RealTerm[^]. I've used it for years, it's open source. A bit wonky, but super powerful, supports scripting, dumping to a file, etc. But recently, I just discovered Device Monitoring Studio[^]. It's not expensive and extremely powerful. It plugs into your serial port driver so that you can see outgoing and incoming traffic, with hex display. You can color code your packets by protocol and create your own.
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I find I am always writing protocols to talk to lots of different scientific and industrial instruments. The quality of the documentation on these protocols varies widely. More often to the worse side. They often take a lot of experimentation to understand them. Originally they were over com ports. Now they are often over Ethernet. Often they use their old com port protocol over Ethernet. I need a terminal program that will show non-printable characters. It should also have function buttons to type strings that contain non-printable characters. I have looked for years but never found any thing. Does anyone know if one exists?
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
If you want to go old-school and just look at raw hex, stick with RealTerm[^]. I've used it for years, it's open source. A bit wonky, but super powerful, supports scripting, dumping to a file, etc. But recently, I just discovered Device Monitoring Studio. It's not expensive and extremely powerful. It plugs into your serial port driver so that you can see outgoing and incoming traffic, with hex display. You can color code your packets by protocol and create your own.
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I find I am always writing protocols to talk to lots of different scientific and industrial instruments. The quality of the documentation on these protocols varies widely. More often to the worse side. They often take a lot of experimentation to understand them. Originally they were over com ports. Now they are often over Ethernet. Often they use their old com port protocol over Ethernet. I need a terminal program that will show non-printable characters. It should also have function buttons to type strings that contain non-printable characters. I have looked for years but never found any thing. Does anyone know if one exists?
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
If you want to go old-school and just look at raw hex, stick with RealTerm[^]. I've used it for years, it's open source. A bit wonky, but super powerful, supports scripting, dumping to a file, etc. But recently, I just discovered Device Monitoring Studio[^]. It's not expensive and extremely powerful. It plugs into your serial port driver so that you can see outgoing and incoming traffic, with hex display. You can color code your packets by protocol and create your own.
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I find I am always writing protocols to talk to lots of different scientific and industrial instruments. The quality of the documentation on these protocols varies widely. More often to the worse side. They often take a lot of experimentation to understand them. Originally they were over com ports. Now they are often over Ethernet. Often they use their old com port protocol over Ethernet. I need a terminal program that will show non-printable characters. It should also have function buttons to type strings that contain non-printable characters. I have looked for years but never found any thing. Does anyone know if one exists?
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
If you want to go old-school and just look at raw hex, stick with RealTerm. I've used it for years, it's open source. A bit wonky, but super powerful, supports scripting, dumping to a file, etc. But recently, I just discovered Device Monitoring Studio. It's not expensive and extremely powerful. It plugs into your serial port driver so that you can see outgoing and incoming traffic, with hex display. You can color code your packets by protocol and create your own.
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Take a look at www.Simplecomtools.com - TCP Test Tool. Has worked well for me. Freeware - Simple Com Tools[^]
Looks reasonable. To bad it is limited to only TCP
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
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If you want to go old-school and just look at raw hex, stick with RealTerm. I've used it for years, it's open source. A bit wonky, but super powerful, supports scripting, dumping to a file, etc. But recently, I just discovered Device Monitoring Studio. It's not expensive and extremely powerful. It plugs into your serial port driver so that you can see outgoing and incoming traffic, with hex display. You can color code your packets by protocol and create your own.
I have used real term also. It is a good tool and you are correct about it being a bit wonky. Device Monitor Studio looks interesting and has lots of features. I am sure it is worth it but at about $500 for the really useful package it is way out of my budget. The low end one would not work for me. Connections Data Monitoring Logging and Analyzing Software[^]
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
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I find I am always writing protocols to talk to lots of different scientific and industrial instruments. The quality of the documentation on these protocols varies widely. More often to the worse side. They often take a lot of experimentation to understand them. Originally they were over com ports. Now they are often over Ethernet. Often they use their old com port protocol over Ethernet. I need a terminal program that will show non-printable characters. It should also have function buttons to type strings that contain non-printable characters. I have looked for years but never found any thing. Does anyone know if one exists?
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
Some good suggestions. This is my fantasy of what the terminal conversation should look like. (Note, I have picture but this forum will not let me include it. My picture has a lot more formatting for the non-printable characters and better colors. This is the best I could do here.) STX_send some data_ETX
NAK
STX_send temperature_ETX
STX_72F_ETX
ACK
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
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Interesting. Does not do TCP/IP packets. All the hex is distracting.
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
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Right click packet, select follow stream. Text dump of packet trace. This may be what you are looking for?
???? I am looking for an interactive terminal.
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
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Your relatives may have been from the Matrix and read binary and hex. I am all human and need characters. :) :-D Please take this as humor and not an insult. :laugh:
So many years of programming I have forgotten more languages than I know.
Didn't take that as an insult. I don't have any choice though. I am working with a protocol that doesn't give a damn about human readability. It was optimized to be concise and that pretty much mandates binary-only.