Hi Mike

Thanks for the reply. One more favour please. From Where can I get
commtools library.

Regards
Jayesh


>This seems to only work in FoxPro for DOS (according to the Lang. Ref). I did get it to work in FoxPro for Dos but, I had to issue a dos mode command first and the cFileName of the FOPEN command had to be a valid DOS Name (COM1: works but com1 won't)
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>cSuccess = FOPEN('COM1:',10)
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>When I had to use com ports with VFP I had to get a third party library (CommTools).
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>>Hi All,
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>> I want to know how can i open/read com port using FOPEN()
>>when i tried FOPEN('com1',10) it returns -1 and FERROR() returns
>>5 (file access denied). Please put some sample code if possible.
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>>Thanks in advance
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>>Jayesh