Is there such a piece of software as a Linux "Keyboard Wedge" for taking RS-232C serial port data and routing it into the keyboard buffers, where it then enters an application just as if the data were entered by keystrokes? More specifically, I've been using a variety of software wedges for several years, (in the Microsoft operating system) to route data from laboratory balances and digital scales, through the serial port and into Excel. I would really like to do this with one of the Linux spreadsheets, many of which would make far better data collection specific terminals than a plain jane MS-Windows machine running Excel. I've spent a great deal of effort searching for Linux data acquisition applications that might do this really basic task and have found few. "SampLin" is a very elegant and also very complex program for collecting and then manipulating data. It is a bit too high powered for my needs. All I need is a small program for translating the 12 asci characters, (stripping off the first 4 that are null, then sending the 7digits which compose the readout) that are sent out at 2400 baud and then piping them into the appropriate path, just as if they were keystrokes. I'm working with Mitutoyo digimatic calipers and Ohaus scales. Has anyone else solved this problem? I suspect that it may be on the level of Perl 101 in the world of programming. Many thanks in advance for any advice/guidance rendered. Respectfully, Glenn Hollowell