>> There is a device which is sending data to the parallel port of a computer on which VFP is installed. I want to capture the data and display it on screen and store it in a database for analysis.

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>>I want to be able to capture input from a device attached to the parallel port and save the data into a table.
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>Is the device sending data to the computer that runs VFP or do you want to capture the output of another program that prints onto the parallel port? If that's the case and the application is running on Windows, you can redirect a printer into a file instead of to the actual LPT port.