"Michael S. Davis" wrote:
> I want to test a program to see how it communicates
> over the serial port.
>
> Can I use the cradle the same as a standard serial port?
Yes you can. However, you will need a male-male, null modem connector
to have it talk with devices such as modems and instruments with serial
ports wired like a modem device. I ended up making a short cable like
this from my old Newton serial sync cable to test a bunch of serial
devices.
>
> Or, does this work only in conjunction with hot-syncing?
The cradle is mostly a glorified serial cable.
>
> Have not idea what's in, if anything, the cradle. I would
> just like to avoid buying another cable just for test.
The insides of the cradle us just a small board with the special mount
to the handheld and the Hotsync button wired to one of the terminals of
the mount. There isn't even a discrete component in it. If you are
handy with a soldering iron, I can give you some more tricks like hot to
have the cradle's hotsync button start a modem hotsync instead of a
local one. :)
>
> Thanks
>
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