>>Hi,
>>A routine I had written in FP2.5DOS to read a stream of data from
>>the com port included the line - p_Er = FOPEN("Com2",10)worked.
>>But when executed in VFP5.0 returns the error - "Invalid
>>seek offset (error 1103)". Does anyone know the problem?
>>Thanks,
>>Lawrence
>
>The COM port is under Window's control. You should look at using MSCOMM32.OCX that ships with VFP.

Hi Craig,
Many thanks for the tip.
Lawrence