Hi Ed,

Thanks a million, you have been a big help..


>>I am looking for a reasonable fast way to read and write to a serial port from within VFP. The following is a quick basic example program. How can I do this in VFP?
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>Your best bet would be to use the MSCOMM32.OCX included with VFP; it provides an OLE interface to serial communications. There are detailed examples of how to use the MSCOMM control here on UT, as well as in the MSDN documentation. A close equivalent of what you show below might look like:
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