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Hello,

I need a small application written to read (ASCII) data off of a com port that is in use by another application. I need to then parse that data, and send it off to the default windows (XP) printer with some minimal formatting to print out data (and page feed) without any user intervention.

I'd like to know 3 things:

1. Is JAVA the way to go here?
2. How do I go about getting data from an in-use com port.
3. How can I print a page without any user intervention?


-- If grabbing data of the in-use com port is an issue I have a couple of ugly work arounds.

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