About Markish Expertise I can answer general questions related to Foxpro from Version 2.0 to 9.0. I'll try to answer them as quickly as possible.
Experience I've been into Dbase programming from age of 11. I've worked in versions from FoxPro 2.0 and Foxbase. Education/Credentials I've done my B.Tech (IT) with distinction from Anna University, Chennai - India.
Question I want to capture date from a computerised weighment scale.
The Third-party software installed at Weigh Bridge is working properly.
For the another purpose i want to capture the same date displayed at the LCD Console with the separate utility(Foxpro 2.x - Foxpro 6.0)
Answer Hi Anil,
To capture data from the COM port, you can use fopen(), fread(), fclose(). But I don't remember doing it in the recent past. In the recent past, for one of my client, I used the COMtoKB a third party tool.