[time-nuts] Tboltmon Serial Port Selection...??

[Didier Juges]

 Marty,

Thanks for the link, I did not know about this new software. I will try it.

The manual appears well done too.

Didier KO4BB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com 
> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Smith
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:02 PM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Tboltmon Serial Port Selection...??
> 
> Quoth Didier Juges at 2008-03-28 11:03...
> > I wish I knew how to bypass that too, so if you find out, 
> please post 
> > the answer back here.
> ...
> > It is a Windows "feature" where the OS thinks the Tbolt is a serial 
> > mouse, and it is converting the data stream into mouse 
> movements. And 
> > no, it does not work like a navigation system :-)
> 
> <ftp://ftp.trimble.com/pub/sct/embedded/bin/TrimbleGPSMonitor_
> V1-05-0.zip>
> 
> Extract the PDF manual from the zip file - gives instructions 
> which should help.
> 
> Basically, if Windows 'sees' a constant input stream from a 
> serial device, it foolishly assumes that what is connected is 
> a mouse.  Glad I don't use Windows ;-)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> M
> 

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