In what way did it not work?

You go to the 'Transfer' menu and choose 'Capture Text...'
It asks you for a filename
You give it a filename, then click 'Start'
The 'Capture' indicator turns 'ON' (becomes black) in the status bar.

From that point on, everything received by the terminal is both displayed on the screen & written to the file.

When you're done, you go back to the 'Transfer', choose 'Capture Text >' and then choose 'Stop'
The 'Capture' indicator turns 'OFF' (becomes grey) in the status bar.

You can then examine the file & see the received data.

You aren't trying to examine the file before stopping the capture, are you? If you do that, Hypoterminal still has the file open for writing - and you are bound to get problems...!



Well, that should be no problem at all!

Conceivably, you might get problems if you were using a very high baud rate and/or a very slow PC - but you have neither of those.


Locate the port(s) in question in Device Manager.
Open the Properties page for a port
Look on the 'Port Settings' Tab
Click 'Advanced' - there's the FIFO settings

(you can also get to this via the settings in Hypoterminal).