Purchase the full version of Hyperterminal. It comes with scripting capabilities, so you could automate it.
Troy Sosamon ===== Original Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 10/15/02 10:46 pm >Bernie, > >The data I want to capture on my com1 port is coming in from my telephone >system. The telephone system thinks it is printing raw data (fixed records) >to a serial printer. Every time a telephone call comes in or out of the >office, the phone system sends the log record of the call out its serial >port. I want to connect my PC to the phone system and have rbase capturing >it to a file somehow. > >Right now, I am using hyperterminal to capture it to a log file and it >works great. I do, however, have to manually close the log, move the file >to rbase and set hyperterminal to capture to a new log file. I want to >automate this somehow but for now it is at least working. > >Thom > >At 05:16 PM 10/11/2002 -0400, you wrote: >>What program is the sender using? Usually there is a counterpart to receive >>the data. >>In a strictly dos environment we use Close-Up to send and receive. It has >>script file capability so the sender can actually run a program to load >>r:Base, and run macros within it. >>PcAnywhere (win or dos) would also allow you to send and receive files. One >>of my customers uses it to retrieve files from each of his remote locations. >> >>Bernie Lis >>Megabytes, Inc. >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Thomas J Cimicato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 6:12 PM >>Subject: Capturing COM Ports >> >> >> > I want to capture data to a text file that is coming in from my phone >> > system to my computer via com1. These records are fixed length so it would >> > be easy to load a it to a table nightly. >> > >> > The question is... what would be the best way to capture this data that is >> > being sent by the phone system to the com1 port on my computer. It is >> > working now with Hyperterminal, but I would rather automate it. >> > >> > 1) Can R:Base open a com port and capture a data stream? >> > >> > 2) Is there a dos command line utility that I can invoke to simply capture >> > to a specific file name. >> > >> > Any thoughts ?? >> > >> > Thomas J Cimicato >> > President >> > Integrated Check Technologies >> > Collect-A-Check, Inc. >> >> >>================================================ >>TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: >>Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l >>================================================ >>TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l >>================================================ >>TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: >>http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > >Thomas J Cimicato >President >Integrated Check Technologies >Collect-A-Check, Inc. >------------------------------------------------------------ >Bus:800.338.0676 >Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.ICheckTech.com > >================================================ >TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: >Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l >================================================ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l >================================================ >TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: >http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
