>Hi all,
>
>Hi,
>
>I have a problem with a weighing scale that is
>hooked up through the serial port to a 486 SX PC
>running FPD26. It works fine as long as we keep
>the PC as a novell 3.11 station. We have a
>special server for this. The rest of the network
>runs novell 4.1. Under novell 4.1 the
>FPD26 program cannot read the scale for very
>osbscure reasons.
>
>We would like to get rid of the 3.11 server. Is
>there elementary, preferrably frewarish software
>that we could try to manage the comm port?
>
>This is all we need really, no fax, telephone
>application... It seems unreasonnable to throw 300
>usd (commtools or silverfox) at the problem
>without even being sure that we can solve it.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Marc
>


Marc

Check out low level file commands (ie: fopen() )

Tom