Our plant here in Texas uses hand held bar code scanners (Micro-Wand 
IIIE) manufactured by Hand Held Products, that we bought through an 
outfit called Interface Systems, Inc. out of Kansas.  Their current 
use (until 6:00 AM Monday, September 8, 1997) is to scan the bar-coded 
inventory, upload the data via a PC running WFWG 3.11 to a Novell server 
and into the application (which is written in FoxBase).  After that time, 
their use will be to scan the bar-coded inventory, upload via a PC running 
Win95 to the HP3000 and into the new application running on the HP.

The problem is that the upload software that runs on the PC and
communicates 
with the scanner does not run under Win 95 (I know, Denys, I can't believe 
it either!).  The vendor (ISI) says that we can use Hyperterm until they 
have their Win 95 act together, but the instructions they gave me for 
using Hyperterm to communicate to the scanners don't work.  So, does anyone

have any ideas on getting this data from the scanner and onto the PC?

ISI said to set up Hyperterm using a "Direct to COM1" connection and then
to 
"Capture Text" and start the upload process on the scanner.  But when I do 
that I either get garbage, or nothing, usually nothing.  The scanner is 
connnected to COM1 and Hyperterm will talk to a modem if I plug one 
into the port.

As usual, any suggestions are appreciated.  Right now, we're keeping the 
WFGW PC just to read the data from the scanner and transferring the data 
to the Win95 PC using a diskette.  There has to be a better way!

Jim Phillips                            Manager of Information Systems
Voice: (915) 860-9933                   Therm-O-Link of Texas, Inc.
  Fax: (915) 860-9936                   1295 Henry Brennan
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