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Capturing Serial input to text/db fileHelpful Member! 

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JohnVogel (Programmer)
30 Apr 01 11:01
I need to capture data sent to a PC's standard serial communication port (COM1) to a text file which eventually needs to be incorporated into a Microsoft Access 2000 Database structure. Has anyone done this sort of thing and if so, what software did you use to accomplish this?
TIA

Helpful Member!  tompy (Programmer)
17 May 01 11:36
See www.taltech.com - haven't used it myself yet, but looks useful.

Also, if your input data is formatted properly (numbers separated by any decent character ) try capturing the file directly in hyperterminal (or better, ZOC) and send it to a text file. Later, open the text file in, for example, Excel, and use the special character as separator.

(I did do it myself this way)
cyberdyne (Programmer)
20 May 01 13:33
u can use VC++ language to write the program. I hv not used serial ports but i used parallel ports earlier in basic and it worked well. There were some outport and inport commands i used. U can do it nicely in VC++.
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