>>>I have not idea about other issues but there isn't any trouble about RS232 with VFP. I developed POS and Restaurant POS applications with VFP. These applications work with USB devices same time RS232 devices (displays, scales...).
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>>Hi Metin.
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>>The trouble is not with the stuff controled by the RS232, it's with the interfaces. I've had a lot of adapters not working.
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>>Until not so long ago I've had no broadband connection, so I've used to use a old fashined ISDN interface to go into the net. This interface was using a RS232. I have some other stuff too.
>>The comps I own have no RS 232 onboard for more the a decade now. So I use USB devices. More of half of them are simply not working with some / all combinations. of app / comp / device.
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>>Just my observations
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>>Lutz
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>Mi experience is closer to Metin's than yours. We have several (at least 10, 2 more planned) programs that retrieve information from different systems that run 24/7 since long I started working here (and I started more than 15 years ago), we change the programs (from FoxPlus to VFP9, from DOS to Windows 7 and from Novell to MS Server 2012) but the basics are the same, the hardware changed, I do not even know how many different devices are between the source and one of those 10 computers (pure serial, usb 2 serial, network 2 serial) and the only serious problem we had was about 3-4 months ago where the data came corrupted, of course the owners of the "master" systems were first blaming our VFP program, then another computer started having issues, so they started blaming our settings, which had not being changed, finally when the third computer started having troubles, they finally got around to check only to found out that the problem was that they were splitting the cables to feed another system and they were introducing "noise", of course they never said in the beginning that they were splitting cables, it was easier for them to waste our time chasing a phantom fox pro issue... Good times, good times.

Just curious.
Do you control as like as PLC or do you monitor and supervise with ths PC/VFP stuff?

I only mean that PLC / ardunie RasPi stuf is not expensive those days and that the time you need to master this might equal the time to get around all the problems you might consider with PC/VFP.

VFP might look more familiar, but the things the might result in the setting could be worst. And from time to time it's good to look at a new language too. Possibly VFP breaks with the next version ....
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