hyperterminal operation

[Guest]

I am using hyperterminal to collect data from a pabx via a serial port and
store the data in a text file. Is there any way to

1. start hyperterminal as a service (independently of whether any user logs
on); and
2. make it capture text automatically once it is started?

 

[Dave Patrick]

This article may help. Though I doubt it would work because of the GUI. You
might want to look into using an MSComm control in a VB application EXE
which could be run as a service.

HOWTO: Create a User-Defined Service
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=137890


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:
|I am using hyperterminal to collect data from a pabx via a serial port and
| store the data in a text file. Is there any way to
|
| 1. start hyperterminal as a service (independently of whether any user
logs
| on); and
| 2. make it capture text automatically once it is started?

 

[dev]

/george/ said:

I am using hyperterminal to collect data from a pabx via a serial port and
store the data in a text file. Is there any way to

1. start hyperterminal as a service (independently of whether any user logs
on); and
2. make it capture text automatically once it is started?

You might also check with the creators of HPTRM...
http://hilgraeve.com

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the tip about the user defined service. Will try that out over the
weekend. Even if i cannot use it for hyper terminal i have another
application (a scanner application) for which it will come in useful.

As for automatically starting to capture text once the program, nothing
simpler than a VB program pl? I was hoping for a switch type of option built
in maybe?

Regards,

George