What is the length of lcVar?

>The msCOMM 6.0 control is , according to the Coverage Profiler of VFP8, taking a relatively long time to assign variables.
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>It is taking over .05 seconds to do
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This.MSComm1.OUTPUT=lcVar

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>Is there a way to make it go faster or to replace it? It is being used to communicate to a check endorser/encoder.