Capturing Serial input to text/db file 1

[JohnVogel]

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

John Vogel

http://www.computerwiz.net

johnvogel@computerwiz.net

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[tompy]

See

http://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]

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++.

s-)