stand alone test program for serial receiver (home brew)

[ur <ur...@gm...>]

Helllo,
is there a standalone program for reading from the serial receiver (the  home 
brewn)  ?

Since I want to test a self made IR Receiver (and probabaly also other 
similar pulse generating devices)  on an Agenda VR3, I'd like to have a 
little standalone program  to test the hardware.
Since I think building a kernel with Lirc suport for the Agenda (especally 
the snow version) is not trivial. I'd like to have some monotythic program to 
be able to read the pulses and record the time when these pulse occured.

TIA
ur