>Thanks for all your help!!
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> Here is the real problem:
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>There is an Application (written in FPW 2.6) that for some reason uses the comm port to download data from a hand held barcoding device (capture the data on the floor plant and the donwload the data to the Application PC.) but that application doesn't work with Win NT because uses an old DOS based program to reach the comm port what could be the best approach to solve this problem?

Usually the hand-held devices used to take inventory or capture other data come with software to install on the receiving computer in order to download data from the portable scanner. The data is usually downloaded into an ascii or delimited file. Short of this, if you can get the actual FPW code to see how this was done, you may be able to revise the code in VFP to work on NT. If only the compiled code is available, you may have to get a 3rd party decompiler like ReFox available from www.Hollogram.com.