>Viv,
>
>>It's not assigning a variable - it's sending the string to the transmit buffer. I guess if you want it to go faster you need a faster baud rate...
>
>Correct, but only to a point. Try the following:
>

>sendstart = SECONDS()
>this.mscomm1.output = SPACE(100)
>buffcount  = this.mscomm1.outBufferCount
>sendend = SECONDS()
>outputtime = sendend-sendstart
>

>
>buffcount wil always be 0. Control doesn't return to VFP until the entire output buffer is empty.

I think we're saying the same thing - the act of assigning it sends it and the code doesn't continue till that's completed. It would've been more intuitive if they'd made this a method:

this.mscomm1.Output(SPACE(100))

Come to think of it I don't recall MSCOMM having *any* methods?
Best,
Viv