QSermon Version 0.8
===================

qsermon is an system-utility to watch the activities on a given serial
port. The current state of the TX,RX,CTS,RTS,DTR,DSR,DCD and RI lines are
shown by some kind of LEDs. Furthermore, the current TX/RX transfer rates
are visualisized using bars and within an osziloscope (this is nice to
analyse the transfer characteristics). Additionaly, the amount of received
and transmitted data since programm start is displayed.


Usage
=====

serialmon [-d <device>] [-r <max. asumed rate>] [-h]

options:
-d   select device (i.e. /dev/ttyS0); default is /dev/ttyS1
-r   select maximum assumed transfer rate in bytes/sec.; default is 8000
     (used for scaling the bars and the osziloscope
-h   deliver version and usage information
Of course, any Xresoure-related option can be given (i.e. -geometry WxH+X+Y)


Compiling
=========

For proper compilation, you will have to install the kernel-patch included
in sermon-0.20; For proper execution, will have to recompile the kernel!

Then, just type "make", but be shure, that libqt is in standard lib-path, and
the path to the qt-include files is in the standard include-path, i.e.:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/qt/lib:
LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/qt/lib:
CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/qt/include:

The program has been compiled for linux-2.0.30 and later, using the
GUI-Toolkit Qt 1.2 and sermon-0.20 from Peter Fox (fox@roestock.demon.co.uk).


Bugs
====

None known at the moment :-)

Tell me, if you find one


Copyright
=========

This program and documentation is copyright B. Kuhn
(kuhn@eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de) and distributed under the GPL
(see COPYING).

Copyright notices are not to be removed or altered.


Warranty
========

There is NO WARRANTY for this program.

This program has been compiled on my machine using gcc 2.7.2, Qt 1.2
and linux 2.0.30, and it seems to work for me.

Thanks
======

Thanks to Peter Fox for his excelent serial device extension !


Bernhard Kuhn
 Mon Jul 21 00:15:21 MET DST 1997
