I am polling an external device through a com port to get a text file. Frequently this will hang the PC. The PC is a 2.5Ghz w/256mb ram. The data I am retreiving is less than 1kb. How can I monitor this transmission to see what is happening?

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> I am polling an external device through a com port to get a text file.
Frequently this will hang the PC. The PC is a 2.5Ghz w/256mb ram. The data
I am retreiving is less than 1kb. How can I monitor this transmission to
see what is happening?

First I would check the COM port and make sure it is not using an IRQ or I/O
address that conflicts with any other hardware. As to your question, it
depends on what you're retrieving and how you're doing it. Is this a Palm
Pilot? A modem? A Unix server? Different data sources would require
different methods to monitor the data stream. I'm only familiar with a few
of those methods, i.e. using TELNET.EXE (or pretty much any comm. program)
to monitor a DCC or modem connection.