Hi William ---

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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?

Solve it in FPW 2.6 or VFP? The best approach, in general, would be to get the handshaking and data transfer specs from the handheld and then write code to call Windows API comm functions.