On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:58 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I am trying to connect a automated urine analyzer to a serial report > with the hope of catching the results so that I can eventually > incorporate the data in a patient medical record. I intend to do the > same thing for a blood analyzer. > > Now that I have Tony Lawrence's script executing I can take the next > step of connecting the urine analyzer to to the serial port to do some > testing. ---- Greg. I Know someone has already asked what you were trying to do. You are better off doing this via RF instead of Serial. I've done this for many years . You will catch hell from Lab Techs, Doctors, and Nurses from them having to connect it to a serial port. That is just the iceing on the cake, not to mention your Application will not be Certified for any Health Care Facility. Thus meaning they could get fined by DHEC and Medicaid/Medicare. If your facility is participating in the Gov. healthcare grants you can look to many certified vendors for *Nix platforms for the software/hardware to do this. If you have any questions you can send me a personal mail. Look at the HL7 coding Laws also. John