Serial I/O Utilities, Data Collection Software, and
Demos
TAL Technologies specializes in serial and
TCP/IP communications and data acquisition software. Its SoftwareWedge products (WinWedge,
DOSWedge, TCPWedge...) collect data from serial and TCP/IP ports and feed that data in
real-time into any PC application program - Excel, Access, etc..
WinWedge and DOSWedge can be configured to collect data from any serial
device, to parse, filter and format that data and feed it, as required,
into your PC applications. You can also define serial output strings to
your devices. TCPWedge is similar but the source of data is a TCP/IP network
port address (Ethernet/Internet). Visit our WinWedge
page for details and a downloadable PDF document.
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get WinWedge to do what I needed. I have not been this satisfied with
a software product in years!" Mark Soldini, Leaseplan
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a free slideshow demo
and tutorial for WinWedge.
To be able to fully configure this software to your specific device and
to test that the data collection occurs exactly as you want you really
need to test our complete software package. For this reason we offer you
an Unconditional 90 Day Money-Back Guarantee. Test it yourself - RISK
FREE.
Below are some FREE serial utility programs and also a demo for a simplified
version of WinWedge called BCWedge
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Wedge Demo for Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP
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BCWedge is a very easy to
use software product designed for data collection from RS232 Bar
Code Scanners. This demo version of BCWedge collects data
from COM1 to COM4 directly into any Windows application program.
Note: BCWedge does not contain any of the advanced features
of either the Standard or the Professional Edition of the WinWedge.
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(1,405 KB executable file)
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ComFile
Demo - * NEW! *
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WinWedge
Tutorial
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Renamer
Utility - * Updated 5-9-2003 *
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Renamer
Utility v.2.1 - (2.12 MB setup file)
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Renamer
Update Patch (v2.0.x to v.2.1) - (285 KB exe file). Added on
screen log to detail events and display error information; the Common
Dialog Box control was replaced with Class Module for easier distribution
and to help prevent version conflicts; double clicking when minimized
now restores the Renamer window instead of displaying the About
Box; and several minor bugs have been fixed.
[You must have renamer v2.0.0 - v2.0.3 already installed
to apply this update. It cannot be used to update the old 16 bit
version (v1.x) or to install the program].
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Download
the complete Visual Basic source code for Renamer v2.1 - (37
KB zip File).
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ShowPorts
Utilities - * Windows Version New 9-18-2002 *
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Find out what COM ports are installed on your computer without
using a screwdriver!
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ShowPorts
for Windows - (1.33 MB Setup File)
Lists all the available com ports on your PC. Full Visual Basic
6 Source code is included!
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Other
Serial I/O Utilities
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SendFile
- (1.5 MB executable file) * New 11-26-2002 *
Allows you to quickly and easily send a file out of a serial Port.
ComDebug
- (1.5 MB executable file)
Allows you to quickly and easily send or receive data through the serial
port. Extremely useful for testing the communications link between your
PC and your serial device.
HideWindow
* Updated 8/2003 *
A small Visual Basic program (with complete source code) that demonstrates
how to show or hide any program's window. This program was designed
originally
as a tool that you can use to hide a running instance of WinWedge however
it can also be used to show or hide any Windows program. Now includes
example for Excel 97 and later.
TAL
Serial Breakout Box Software - (1,303 KB executable file)
Turn any PC or Laptop with two serial ports into a serial breakout box
(serial line analyzer). Snoop in on data that is sent or received through
an RS232 serial cable between any two devices or computers. This is an
excellent tool for diagnosing serial communications problems as well as
for figuring out what is being sent and received between two devices.
This program can also be used as a simple terminal to display data received
on a single serial port. Designed for 32 bit Windows.
Complete
C/C++ source code for a serial (RS232) terminal program - (118 KB
zip file)
Learn how to perform serial communications functions from within your
own custom C/C++ programs. This serial communications code sample was
obtained from the Microsoft's
Developer Network on-line
ASCII
Chart Software for Windows - (6 KB executable file)
Displays a chart of values for each character in the ASCII character set.
LinkTest
Utility - (220 KB executable file)
Software to test DDE commands. Allows you to send DDE commands to any
Windows program that supports DDE.
Com-Key
Utility - (23 KB executable file)
DOS TSR that allows you to define hot keys that send data out a serial
data. Use Com-Key to dial or hang up a modem or send commands to any serial
instrument from within any DOS program.
ComShow
Utility (61 KB executable file)
Extremely useful DOS based serial I/O debug/diagnostic software. Can also
be used as a simple data logger. ComShow displays all data received through
a serial port so you can easily determine exactly what a device is transmitting.
Unlike terminal programs, ComShow displays all characters that are received
including carriage returns, linefeeds and all other control codes embedded
in a serial data stream. ComShow also has output capabilities as well
as the ability to manually set the states of all hardware handshaking
lines.
PortStat
Utility - (295 KB executable file)
Windows program that monitors and sets the status of any of the handshaking
lines on a COM port. PortStat can be used to turn switches on and off
under program control or can be used to monitor the voltage on any of
the handshaking lines in a serial port. For example you could use PortStat
to force another application, like Excel, to run a macro when the voltage
on a serial port line changes state. You could also use it to turn a switch
on or off directly from within Excel, Access or any other program that
supports Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
Tinyport
direct hardware port I/O DLL for Windows NT - (111 KB executable file)
Win95IO
direct hardware port I/O DLL for Windows 95 and 98 - (5 KB executable
file)
Normally, Windows does not allow you to read or write hardware ports directly.
Win95IO is a freeware DLL that contains two functions called ReadPort
and WritePort that allow you to get past this limitation in Windows 95
or Windows 98. Win95IO is provided with a simple Visual Basic program
that demonstrates how to call the functions in the DLL.
TinyPort is a shareware device driver and DLL written by Manfred Keul
that allows you to perform direct hardware port I/O under Windows NT.
TinyPort consists of two files that must be copied to the \SYSTEM32 subdirectory.
One is TINYPORT.SYS, the driver. The other is TINYPIO.DLL, a DLL that
interfaces your programs to TINYPORT.SYS. Please refer to the Tinyport.wri
file for more information on TinyPort.
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