Sending ASCII to serial port

[Technojunkie]

Hi

I need to send the ASCII string /?<CR> <LF> to com1, 7 Bits, 1 start, 1 stop, even parity.

What's the easiest way to do it?

Cheers

 

[Technojunkie]

Hyperterminal

Please excuse my stupidity, but if anybody has time could they write me a small walk through.

How do I generate a carriage return then a linefeed?

Also...it's not a modem I'm talking to, it's an optical interface. (RS232 to IR)


Cheers

 

[Technojunkie]

can you elaborate more on what your trying to do?

Ok I'll elaborate.

I've built one of these: http://www.powerprotocol.com.cn/allprotocols/IEC/IEC 1107 Electricity Meter Interface.pdf

It's basically an optical interface for talking to electricity meters, but the software for it doesn't work, and hardware is my thing not software.(I do know a bit about RS232 and ASCII though)

I thought I'd try sending the initiation string to the meter using some other bit of software and see what happened.


Cheers