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Russell Duffy wrote:
Porting is the art of handling all that stuff. The average software
geek is smart enough to run away from these sort of task in a screaming
panic (unless, he expects to be paid fairly well).
Excellent explanation Ernest! Should be archived at howstuffworks.com. That's bad news, but maybe not fatal. My real question to FJO was not to be able to run their analysis software on the Ipaq, but rather to be able to use the Ipaq to capture the data for later display on the PC. Maybe there's still hope for doing that, but it's still beyond my abilities unless I can talk FJO into working that out. I originally wrote them about this because I wanted to use the software if possible, but needed to be sure it would work before spending $250 on the connectivity kit. Since they're now including the kit free with any wideband controller kit, at least I'm not out anything if I can't use it. Thanks,
Rusty (making oil pickup tube spacer)
If it is just serial data, then there are standards that most people adhere to and it is a simple matter of dumping data to disk. Even if they won't provide you with a spec of the data stream, you can sometimes dump a bunch of it into a text editor and decipher what's what. A simple script can then look for the head of the data stream, then format it into a comma delimited list that any program should accept.
If they want to be nasty and lock you down to their hardware/software solution, then they can require you to use special interfaces/cable and scramble the data so that you don't have a hope without handing them some dollars.
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