>I told my boss I would try but don't really know how. But I bet someone here can help.
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>We have a phone switch that outputs a data stream to a particular port. Through TCO/IP and HyperTerminal this data can be viewed. I need to capture this data stream and write it to a table.

You should be able to open the port in a manner similiar to opening a COM port, and then write out the stream to a file.