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...ld try creating a named pipe under Unix and having your barcode reader write data to it. e.g. $ mknod pipe p $ ls -l pipe prw-r--r-- 1 brett sct 0 Apr 6 14:47 pipe $ cat pipe Meanwhile over on the PC... D:\tmp>dir pipe Volume in drive D is brett Volume Serial Number is 0994-05F2 Directory of D:\tmp 06/04/98 13:47 0 pipe 1 File(s) 0 bytes 122,486,784 bytes free D:\tmp>echo hello > pipe Then back at the Unix machine: $ cat pipe hello $ Just like magic... > Koen Dejonghe Brett Worth

Hi, I need to upload data from a barcode scanner into a Progress database on UNIX. The barcode reader is attached to a PC. We have set it up in this way that the barcode reader creates a file in a directory shared by the PC and an HP box. A simple daemon on the HP scans the directory and triggers a program to upload the data whenever it finds a file in that directory. I was wondering if