Reading data from COM ports

[Rob Cozens]

>I am looking for a way to read data from a COM port continuously. The device
>measures electrical resistance and delivers values. Sadly I dont have any
>interface specs so I want to find a way to interpret what I find myself. The
>software this thing normally uses is awful!

Hi Olaf,

If I recall correctly from my membership in the FreeCard project, Uli Kusterer
(Witness.of.TeachText at gmx.net) has done some work using HyperTalk to 
control theatrical lighting.  Should you contact him, tell him I said 
hello & asked if he ever read Deepak Chopra's "How to Know God".
-- 

Rob Cozens
CCW, Serendipity Software Company
http://www.oenolog.com/who.htm

"And I, which was two fooles, do so grow three;
Who are a little wise, the best fooles bee."

from "The Triple Foole" by John Donne (1572-1631)