The snooper is a serial line snooping tool used for snooping communication between two devices that communicate with an RS232C serial line. An typical machine configuration involving three computers is: partyA a computer partyB computer/modem/digi-cam/whatever console The computer you are using to snoop the communication between A and B. Say, you would like to snoop the following configuration. partyA ---cableAB--- partyB In that case you should connect "console" between partyA and cableAB, as follows: partyA ---cableX--- console ---cableAB--- party B cableX must be cross-cable (a cable to connect two computers). Command-line options % snooper [-options] dev0 dev1 -bBAUD specifies baud rate. -u don't use uucp locking (questionable option) dev0 name of serial device 0. dev1 name of serial device 1.