On 4/11/00 4:02 pm, Monte Goulding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This may be a bit off your topic but it's still about sockets. I have never
> played with this so am just asking through curiosity. My field of study and
> work is in Exercise and Sports Science. In this field (and may others I
> might add) there are a lot of gadgets as you would understand that fit to
> port. Is it possible to read directly from these gadgets or is this only
> possible if you know the messages they are sending. Is this legal if it
> side-steps software designed buy the manufacturer of the gadget. I would be
> quite interested to find out this kind of info for future reference. I am
> really not up to it yet.
Again, this may be possible reading and writing to serial ports - it
wouldn't be sockets in this case (unless these devices talk Internet
protocols!).
Regards,
Kevin
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