>>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.

Then avoid disk access altogether and strtofile(lcString, "COM1:"). Worth a try.