Hi Pascal:
Sounds interesting, but, like I mentioned earlier in my post, I only know WINDOWS/NT/NT SERVER ... :o(

Thanks,

Mal

>Did you consider the Workabout from Psion as handheld ? These machines are :
>- not too expencive
>- optionally equiped with a scanner
>- can interface with PC via cable, IR and/or RF
>- programmable in OVAL (but also C and OPL) which is a VB clone for the workabout. OVAL can handle the DBASEIII fileformat
>
>Unfortunatly the OS of the workabout is EPOC and EPOC and DOS/windows can work together quit good but it's not the same.
>
>I've been using them for some years (in some offline applications) and I'm quit happy with them ...