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List:       kde-announce
Subject:    ksermon-0.2 - a serial line monitor available
From:       Martin Konold <konold () fiwi02 ! wiwi ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1998-01-15 14:09:36
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Hi there,

ksermon-0.2.tgz is also available from

ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/comm/ksermon-0.2.tgz
and its mirrors

Yours,
-- martin

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 11:16:23 +0100
From: Bernhard Kuhn <kuhn@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
To: kde-announce@fiwi02.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: ksermon-0.2 - a serial line monitor

KSermon Version 0.2
===================

ksermon is an system-utility to watch the activities on a given serial
port. The current state of the TX,RX,CTS,RTS,DTR,DSR,DCD and RI lines
are shown by some kind of LEDs. Furthermore, the current TX/RX transfer
rates are visualisized using bars and within an osziloscope (this is
nice to analyse the transfer characteristics). Additionaly, the count of
received and transmitted data since program start is displayed.
"ksermon" is based on "qsermon", so qsermon will be obsolet!

For screenshots,take a look at

http://www.lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de/~kuhn/ksermon/

Download ksermon from

http://www.lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de/~kuhn/ksermon/ksermon-0.2.tgz



Usage
=====

As ksermon uses the session-management system from KDE, the user
has only to start the programm, and then choose the
device to observe from the Options->Preferences menu.
It is also possible to change the update interval and the
maximum displayed transfer-rate during runtime within the
Preferences.



Compiling
=========

For proper compilation, you will have to install the kernel-patch
included in sermon-0.20; For proper execution, will have to recompile
the kernel! (sermon-0.20 is included in ksermon-0.2).

Then, just type "make", but be shure, that Qt and KDE are installed and
$QTDIR and $KDEDIR are set properly.

Type "make install" to install the binary and the Manual-pages (html).
Be sure that you are superuser, when doing this.

The program has been compiled for linux-2.0.33, using the GUI-Toolkit
Qt 1.31, KDE-Beta2 and sermon-0.20 from Peter Fox
(fox@roestock.demon.co.uk).



Bugs
====

- Errors are displayed in the terminal, if the size is to small
  to draw an osziloscope.
- Better start ksermon, before using a serial line (i.e. with kppp).
  Doing it vice verca may hang up the line (don't know why).
- Sometimes ksermon needs the suid-bit set. This is the case,
  when the process using the serial line has suid (i.e. pppd).

Tell me, if you find more :-)



Copyright
=========

This program and documentation is copyright B. Kuhn
(kuhn@eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de) and distributed under the GPL
(see COPYING).

Copyright notices are not to be removed or altered.



Warranty
========

There is NO WARRANTY for this program.

This program has been compiled on my machine using gcc 2.7.2, Qt 1.31,
sermon-0.20 and linux 2.0.33, and it seems to work for me.



Thanks
======

Thanks to Peter Fox for his excelent serial device extension !

Bernhard Kuhn

Tue Jan 13 01:58:28 MET 1998

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