I know this is probably not the correct newsgroup, but I can't find
anywhere else that is appropriate to post it in.

I need to figure out how to write a bluetooth program to access a
bluetooth barcode scanner.  After a lot of searching the Internet, I
have come to the conclusion that something using RFCOMM would be best.
Unfortunately, Bluetooth programming books are not exactly plentiful and
finding a book on RFCOMM is almost impossible.  Most of the Bluetooth
programming books deal with linix.  I have not been able to find much in
how to program Bluetooth in Windows.  I have a linux machine as well as
a Windows machine and on the linux machine I can run RFCOMM from the
command line, but I do not know its equivalent in Windows if there is one.

Can someone point me to an example of a Bluetooth program using RFCOMM
or a book of some kind.  I have looked at Bluetooth Essentials, but it
appears to discuss more on Linux than Windows.  The program does not
have to be very complicated as all I need to do is open up a bluetooth
serial port, authenticate with the scanner and then send some commands
to it.  Oh, I also need to receive data from the scanner.  Surely this
can not be that difficult, but it I have never done this before and I
can't find any good information that will help.

  Z.K.