Thanks for the heads-up on the Name. The reason I do not like MSCOMM is, the last time I tried to use it (2-3 yrs ago), it would not allow you to do checksums on messages sent to another device. I have not done any research to see it M$ has improved on that at all.

>> I do know I do not want to use MSCOMM.
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>Why don't you want to use MSCOMM.
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>P.S. I think you have your first and last name backwards in the config.