Andrew Zbikowski wrote: > Ryan Langseth wrote: > > I little bit of javascript could take care of that, have it focus on > > that field onload() and on input have it submit the page or whatever. > > If they are going to be away from the monitor anyways that would work. > > Definitely an option for dealing with a keyboard wedge scanner, but I'd > still like to know if there is something out there for the original > question of a program monitoring a RS232 port and running an other > program. :) I'd take a look at perl's Device::SerialPort module. Take something like http://www.aplawrence.com/Unix/logger.html and change the while($_ = <DEV>) loop to run the program, maybe. That's what I'd be investigating, at least. :-) Jima