>Hi guys!
>I am not sure what happened with the messaged I e-mailed the other day
>about EDI, but I don't see it being posted here, so, - here I go again :)
>
>Has anyone worked with EDI protocols on the communication side? I am
>pre-releasing a quick'n'dirty 'Double-Sided/Double Entry' EDI full-cycle
>processing by January 1st. Right now it'll go as is, half in VFP and half
>in SmartTerm (through DDE). I'll say in advance that I am not ready for
>that notorious ActiveX that everybody is talking about. But I do need to be
>able to perform file transfers in compliance with ASC 12/ACS 12.6
>communication protocols. My ideal solution will be to do it in VFP, without
>firing DDE conversation or any other conversation for that matter, just use
>good old OpenComm/ReadComm/WriteComm/CloseComm with all intermediate
>FlushComm's and such. Can anyone give me a short but exact sequence for all
>those API's for both Send and Receive procedures? I would greatly
>appreciate it!
>
>
Quick and dirty, hmmmm. See the MS KB and use the Keywork MSCOMM32 thast
should find their example for moving characters to and from a serial with
the serial port OCX. It does work

A quick code fragment reading from port

THISFORM.ioSerialPort1.InBufferSize=20000
THISFORM.ioSerialPort1.HandShaking=2 && RTS

THISFORM.ioSerialPort1.CommPort = pInputPortNumber && 1 or 2
THISFORM.ioSerialPort1.Settings = pInputSourceName && "9600,n,8,1"
THISFORM.ioSerialPort1.InputLen = 1
THISFORM.ioSerialPort1.ParityReplace = "" && No Parity
THISFORM.ioSerialPort1.DTREnable = .T.
THISFORM.ioSerialPort1.PortOpen = .T.
InputBuffer = ""
THISFORM.ioSerialPort1.InputLen = IN(MaxBufferSize,CharactersAvailable)
InputBuffer = InputBuffer + THISFORM.ioSerialPort1.input
&& Get Data Count
*
* Much later....
* Close up shop
THISFORM.ioSerialPort1.PortOpen = .F.