Hi Chaps
This problem of the multiplicity of digital verynear[§] protocols has been discussed at some length on Scott Shumate's group on Yahoo:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ShumaTech/

The Spherosyn and Mitutoyo protocols are especially, er, non-trivial, but some of the newer ordinary calipers are not easy to decode, either. The C-code for the decoding and autoselect algorithms for his 'OpenDRO' are open source on Sourceforge here:
https://opendro.svn.sourceforge.net/...dro/trunk/src/
so it might be worth a look. Can't help directly, 'cos I know SFA about programming.

-- 'course, you prob'ly know all this anyway, in which case apols -- suck eggs--- etc.

Cheers,

John


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