>CommSpy is a Macintosh utility that shows the data being
>sent and received on the serial ports.  It performs the
>function of a hardware line monitor, but does it strictly in
>software. CommSpy can monitor multiple serial ports
>simultaneously.
<snip>
>Other than this product, has anyone seen or used any other that does the
>same thing? I need to monitor some stuff moving in and out in the serial
>port and I don't feel like writing my own app to do it. Oh, the above
>product is in beta testing right now, so I can't even buy it...drat.
>
>Mel Patrick - theWabbitGuy - mel@...


I don't know anything like it, but I would like to have something like that
to keep an eye on the America Online application.

I am a beta tester for 4.0 and one time, the thing hung up with a dialog
saying "compacting Access Numbers Database". Well when this thing was done,
I found a 900 K file where is should have been around 50K at most. When I
poked around using Resedit I found a bunch if not the whole bunch of my
Internet Explorer history and bookmarks in there interspersed among the
actual numbers. I don't know if AOL got my IE files mixed up with its
version of IE, but it sure made me paranoid. I moved the file and made AOL
make a new one, that one stayed small.

I don't trust AOL as much any more. ;)

They make me wonder if they are uploading discrete info files between all
the back and forth transfers going on nowadays. It is essentially a
glorified WWW browser now more and more, and the service resembles HTML
more and more for things.


Robert Covington