Re: Data capture from a serial port

In <3.0.1.32.19970312152648.006a932c@marvin>, Richard Thomas wrote: > >Our call centre runs on a phone system that produces statistics every >hour,and outputs them through a serial port. . >We want to get this data into our OnLine database (5.0.3 on SCO 5.0.0) >without having to key it in from the printout. > >The options open to us are >shell scripts,awk,SQL, ACE and PERFORM. ie >NO 4GL or C/C++ :-( > >Any ideas? > Richard, Get a socket server porogram in ESQL/C, running, to capture the data from the port and to insert into your database. I have done this for voice responce systems, but they were retrieving data from the database. Good Luck Felix K. Mathews ( fmathews@systems.dhl.com )