asd@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (adam.denton) (11/21/89)
I am looking for a database system that can be programmed to obtain commands and data from a serial port, running on an MS-DOS machine (PC). What I am looking for is the facility to be interactive normally, but when a character or string of characters arrives at a serial (or parallel, for that matter) port on the PC, the software will intercept the data from the port and perform some sort of data access/display/lookup. I'm new to databases, so any general info will be very much appreciated. Does anyone know of a good, commercial package that can do this, either built-in or with a minimum of effort? Feature-rich is not what I'm looking for -- your basic, vanilla database should be fine, as long as it can do the above. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Reply via e-mail, as I don't read this group often... Adam S. Denton AT&T Bell Labs, Middletown, NJ asd@mtqua.att.com
Thomas_R_Sundstrom@cup.portal.com (11/25/89)
If you are using one of the Dbase-language variants, Silverware's Silvercomm library offers a variety of features to control and access the serial port. The linkable library particularly works well with Wordtech's dBXL/Quicksilver and Nantucket's Clipper, producing stand- alone EXE files. While I haven't tried it yet, I am told that Advanced Revelation will also do work with the serial port -- to what extent I do not know. Hope that helps.