>How do I open the serial port with fopen?
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>I need to access a timer through the serial port and cannot find information about how to do this with the standard VFP 5.0 Lib.
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>Thanks.
Hi Mark,
You cannot use FOpen() for comm, but you can use MSComm32.ocx. It's not too difficult, if your application isn't. You might find my little paper about this interesting. Look for 'Serial' in Files.
HTH,
Marc.
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