Snorkel is on the right track S/W is expensive to build and especially expensive to maintain - bug fixing, applications compatibility, data integrity, etc. The software is buggy - they would need to fix it. From my experience, it is not that expensive and therefore not much effort is put into it. I...

I can read the data from the card, I agree that VB is not the answer to write a driver. It will help to interpret the data from reading the card and put it into a format that can be manipulated. I think Excel is not the best choice but most people do not have MS Access laying around. It might have t...

Goofproof I see that most people managed to get a later version, "snooze you loose?" no pun intended. I guess the old adage is still true "you can tell the pioneers by the arrows sticking out of their backs" and "never buy software version x.00.00.00" - wait for the patches to come out. I wish I ha...

Well, I started breaking into Soviet computer systems in 1968, reverse engineered my first program in 1975, and disassembled and recompiled my first program in 1983. It would not surprising to me that someone programmed an array or a stack too small, did a recursive call and forgot to set enough mem...

OK, first post here but I have been reading, learning and getting a lot of good information, thanks to all the contributors. Nothing seems to have answered my questions and I think I need clarification on some items. I was diagnosed last year after a sleep study. Did my usual "yeah, right - a doctor...