>Hi there,
>
>I want to send data through the com-port to a customer-display.
>I know that I can use mscoom.ocx or something similar but as I am trying
>to avoid using controls I was wondering if there is a win-api I could use directly?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Thomas

This may be old school, but

COPY file TO COM1:

if I recall from the foxbase days.