BenDover

Hi folks, just thought I'd throw this one in and see if anyone can help and recognise the type of data that I am receiving ?

I'm working on a PC attached to a piece of 'Eclipse' Nurse Call kit in the UK.
The main display unit on this kit has an rs232 output that can be attached to a PC com port so that all audible 'alarm' calls can also be recorded by a reports package.
Basically I'm trying to test out this call recording software on a PC in the workshop. However I dont have any of the actual kit here to allow me to send a genuine alarm report to the PC com port.
What I do have is a 'snapshot' of the data, from a working system, that can be seen on the PC in the 'view raw data' window when an alarm call has been made
which looks like this.......... [BD][83][81][02][01][01][01][01]
Does that format look familiar to anyone ?

Now, if I link my laptop together with the PC running the reports package, I can replicate that data being sent to the pc. It appears exactly as was sent when using a Hyperterminal session at both ends, however when I close the Hyperterminal session and view the 'raw' data that is actually being 'seen' by the reports package ( same way I captured the data in the first place ).......it looks nothing like it ??
my [original BD][83][81][02][01][01][01][01] has now turned into ......

[5B][42][44][5D][5B][38][33][5D]
[5B][38][31][5D][5B][30][32][5D]
[5B][30][31][5D][5B][30][31][5D]
[5B][30][31][5D][5B][30][31][5D]
..........one long string which I've just chopped up to get it all on the page !

Any thoughts

Cheers