This error also means "Unhandled exception", so, there's not much you can find out about it. (If it was an exception known to that program, it would have been handled... :))

Vlad

>I am getting the following error when attempting to use MSCOMM for the first time:
>
>OLE Error Ox8000ffff: Catstrophic failure
>
>The error occurs in the following code when setting the com port:
>
>***
>

>oComm = CREATEOBJ('MSCOMMLib.MSComm')
>oComm.CommPort = 1
>oComm.Settings = "9600,N,8,1"
>oComm.InputLen = 0
>oComm.PortOpen = .T.
>

>***
>
>Am I missing anything?
>Note: I am using WinNt(sp3) and MSCOMM32.ocx is in c:\WINNT\system32