Try this. It says it works fine in Win2k but doesn't mention WinXP. I have used this in the past and it worked great for watching trafic from an old sharp databank device I use to have. Never did figured out the protocol but I used it for exporting data from the device (using a replay "attack") http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/portmon.shtml > I have an application that I need to steal data from. This application > is initalizing a bar code reader and I would like to see the escape > sequences that are used to initialize this particular device. There are > bajillions of DOS apps that claim to spy on a com port but I have had no > luck with them. Every app I try to use results in a com port in use > error when I fire up the app I want to sniff. Does anyone have any > applications to try? I need one that will allow me to monitor a comport > passively in win2k or XP and it must at the same time allow another > application to query or connect to the com port. I need to be able to > see the data being passed back and forth between the application and the > device.
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