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Cereal is a flexible serial port program that lets you communicate with any other serial device using Bluetooth or a wired RS232 connection.
Updated to allow immediate connection to the last connected Bluetooth device (PalmOS version only), and to display received data as ASCII text, decimal, or hex ASCII Values!
In the Palm version of Cereal, you choose to connect by either Bluetooth or a “wired” RS232 connection (if you happen to have one of the few remaining Palm devices with a serial port). After the port is opened it becomes irrelevant which method you’ve connected using. Virtually all serial speeds are supported, and text as well as control characters can be transmitted. You can echo text sent in the “received text” window, as well as editing and adding notations to it. The received data can be saved as a Memo Pad or text file for easy synchronization to your PC.
On the PocketPC, a Bluetooth serial link is established exactly the same way as a wired RS232 connection except you select a different COM port. Typically COM1 is the wired serial connection (if one exists) and COM2 through COM16 may be assigned to built-in Bluetooth, add-on compact flash or SDIO Bluetooth cards, or other devices such as GPS. As with the Palm, virtually all serial speeds are supported, and text as well as control characters can be transmitted. You can echo text sent in the “received text” window, as well as editing and adding notations to it. The received data can be saved directly as a plain text file and either transferred to the PC or manipulated on-board with Pocket Word.
The cost is only $15 for either version!
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