I am also trying something else. I am playing with a serial scanner connnected directly to the computer's serial port. Testing that I am getting some strange results. When I scan a short barcode (5-6 chars) it works fine I am consistently scanning the barcodes correctly but a barcode is pretty long like 25 chars I am getting all kind of bad scans: sometimes it is just two chars, somwtimes 10, and once in a while all 25. I have played with mscomm settings and port settings but could not find anything that would help. I also tried different scanners. Do you have any idea?

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