>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.

There are tools for reading serial port which will dump incoming port info
into a txt file(s) which you can then slice/dice with VFP.

I found and used 'ComCap
(Google for ComCap by MagentaSystems UK)
but there are many.

Use FileToStr() to read txt to string and then
from string you chop it up into a tmp cursor. From there you can do what ever you want.

HTH