freebsd-ports/comms/snooper/pkg-descr
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Ugh.  pkg/DESCR is an advertisement for your port, people.  It seems to
me that if I was writing a port for some peice of software that I liked,
I would try to make it look nice to the rest of the world, who might never
even use it otherwise.
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The snooper is a serial line snooping tool used for snooping communication
between two devices that communicate with an RS232C serial line.
An typical machine configuration involving three computers is:
partyA a computer
partyB computer/modem/digi-cam/whatever
console The computer you are using to snoop
the communication between A and B.
Say, you would like to snoop the following configuration.
partyA ---cableAB--- partyB
In that case you should connect "console" between partyA and
cableAB, as follows:
partyA ---cableX--- console ---cableAB--- party B
cableX must be cross-cable (a cable to connect two computers).
Command-line options
% snooper [-options] dev0 dev1
-bBAUD specifies baud rate.
-u don't use uucp locking (questionable option)
dev0 name of serial device 0.
dev1 name of serial device 1.