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From: asd@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (adam.denton)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: I am looking
Message-ID: <2395@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Nov 89 20:52:01 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I am looking for a database system that can be programmed to obtain
commands and data from a serial port, running on an MS-DOS machine (PC).
What I am looking for is the facility to be interactive normally, but
when a character or string of characters arrives at a serial (or
parallel, for that matter) port on the PC, the software will intercept
the data from the port and perform some sort of data
access/display/lookup.  I'm new to databases, so any general info will
be very much appreciated.

Does anyone know of a good, commercial package that can do this,
either built-in or with a minimum of effort?  Feature-rich is not
what I'm looking for -- your basic, vanilla database should be fine,
as long as it can do the above.

Any suggestions?  Thanks in advance.  Reply via e-mail, as I don't
read this group often...

Adam S. Denton
AT&T Bell Labs, Middletown, NJ
asd@mtqua.att.com