I have subclassed the MSComm control, and need to know if the following would be correct in order to send a character string to the drawer in order to pop it open:

lnComPort = 1 && actually derived from an app property set at login
with This.oleComPort  && THIS applies to the form the control is on
   .CommPort = lnComPort
   .InputLen = 0
   .PortOpen = .t.
   .Output = Chr(255)  && or some other arbitrary character string
   .DoVerb()
   .PortOpen = .f.
EndWith

The DoVerb was the only method I thought would send the Output string to the com port. There were some values that could be passed with DoVerb [0 - default, -1, etc.], but none of the definitions in the DoVerb help adequately explained what each really does as it would apply to this control.

I would test this myself, but I do not have access to a cash drawer and do not care to spend several hundred dollars for a 5 minute test.

TIA.