Comments on: RPG communicate with USB device? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/rpg-communicate-with-usb-device/ Wed, 22 May 2013 18:27:48 +0000 hourly 1 By: rickme http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/rpg-communicate-with-usb-device/#comment-79403 rickme Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:34:00 +0000 #comment-79403 Tom, thanks for those ideas. i’ll investigate both. fyi, the particular device i’m working with is a National Instruments NI USB-2008 data collection device, which will be attached to a plc on our production floor. the plc sends various data streams to this collection device to signal the occurrence of various events on the machine.
thanks again, rick

]]> By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/rpg-communicate-with-usb-device/#comment-79377 tomliotta Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:13:30 +0000 #comment-79377 I can imagine a USB device that included programming that acted as a proxy server. The proxy would install/activate when the device was activated on the PC. Communication with the proxy could be via sockets.

However, the only reasonable source of information on whether such a function was included with the device and on how to make use of it would be the vendor of the device.

I also can imagine that a USB drive might be presented to the Windows network as a shared directory. That could allow a RPG program to communicate through the usual /QNTC file system.

Tom

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