The WinHexCom application was dveloped to be a protocol analyzer with ASCII and hexadecimal display features.
The design philosophy behind this program was to keep it straight and simple. The idea is to debug a protocol, not fight the tool. All controls and settings are permanently visible and only two communications ports are supported. More than two ports are seldom required in practice since one can only meaningfully debug one data link at a time and with many ports, the data display would become confusing, so two ports was set as the logical limit. You can run multiple instances of this program to debug 4 or more ports, but then you need a fast PC.
This program requires at least one standard PC serial communications adapter for RS232, RS422 or RS485 operation. RS232 is the common or garden variety serial port frequently built into a PC. USB Serial RS232 Adapters are also supported. If you need RS422 or RS485, you'll know it.
NOTE:
Home users can use WinHexCom free of charge for hobyist purposes, but if you feel that we are going to starve if you don't pay, then a pizza voucher would be welcomed.
Limitations:
· There is little difference in the operation of the program, whether it is registered or non-registered, The unregistered version put small nag messages on screen and in the log files and the registered version will save the last 10 messages sent and retrieve them the next time you run the program, which is handy, especially if you have very large or complex messages.
What's New in This Release:
· Fixed USB Serial RS232 Support for Bill McPheeters. Now you can use it with a Laptop PC and a USB adapter.
· Fixed a bug with higher COM port numbers, which caused the above problem.
· Fixed receiver restart after a file transfer.