Retreive Data Over TCP From RS232 Serial Server

We require a command line EXE that will retrieve data from the serial port side of a RS232 Ethernet server. The server used is the GW212 1-Port Serial Device Server found at this site: [login to view URL] - There is a weigh scale attached to the serial port side of the serial server. - We require an EXE that will query the IP address of the serial server and return the weight value of the attached weigh scale. - We can currently do this using PUTTY but we need to be able to execute this in an automated fashion. - A program we currently use will need to call the proposed EXE. The proposed EXE will be required to return the weight from the scale and store it in a text file. Our current program will read the text file for the required weight. - The proposed EXE must be very efficient and low on system resources. It must be able to run within terminal server sessions as there could be several hundred sessions that will query various weigh scales. In other words, it could be that several hundred instances of this EXE (each polling a different IP/Server) could be executed at approximately the same time. - We will have a server available on a public IP address with a scale attached for your use during development. - At successful project completion, we ask that the source code be provided along with the compiled project EXE. The specifications of the utility are as follows: - A Single EXE file that will run under 32-Bit & 64-Bit Windows Operating Systems (specifically Windows Server 2008). - Prefer this to be a single EXE file with little or no dependancies (eg: DLL's, libraries, etc.). - After the EXE has queried or polled the IP for data & written the result to the Text data file, exe must exit completely & all system resources used must be completely released & returned to the OS. - The utility will query the IP address (which will be specified in an .INI file) and return the data to a Text file. - The EXE should look for an .INI file in the same directory that it is called from. - The .INI file will specify the following: > A COMMENTS line where we can add any text comments that may be needed. This has has no bearing on any function of the EXE file. Solely for our use to record notes, comments, or messages. > IP address of the serial server > Location of the text file (if no data specified, default to same directory that EXE is called from) > Overwrite or APPEND data in text file (in other words, if overwrite is specified, the text file will always be created new and contain only one line of the latest data that was polled. If APPEND is specified, the text file will not be created new and the polled data will be appended to the current data in the text file). We request that the developer has successfully completed similar projects in the past.