Hi Stuart,

What particular problems were you having with the I/O OCX control? I've used it very successfully in several apps where MSCOMM didn't quite fit. I may be able to help.

>Hi
>I looked at your suggestions, hacking the mscomm seemed too deep for me :)
>http://www.jspayne.com/io/home.html I could not get to work
> http://www.eltima.com/download/serial-activex. seemed fine and if I go this route will use. I am also looking at doing it in .NET
>thanks for the reply
>Stuart