>>Marc
>>
>>What initialization are you trying to do? Maybe
>>most can be handled by the DOS MODE command?
>>
>>Tom
>
>Tom,
>
>The problem with the weighing scale is that the
>serial port has to be initialised every time a
>weighing operation takes place. Running MODE from
>Foxpro did not work, but I wrote a little program
>in QBasic (of all languages) in which one _can_
>initialise the serial port.
>
>This works well when RUNed from FPD, curiously
>enough, only if RUNed from a desktop program, not
>if any windowing is involved.
>Why, do not ask. I would not know. I dislike it
>this situation, but for the time being the client
>is happy.
>
>But comes Novell 4.1, and my little device does
>not work anymore.
>
>I guess there must be some memory swapping done by
>FPD that hinders the initialisation. In fact I
>guess that what I am really looking for is Call
>that would initialise the serial port.
>
>Thanks for your concern,

Marc.

You keep telling me 'initialize a seial port' but you never mention what type of initialization! Initializing can be one of many things (ie: resetting UART, OPening/closing port, etc).

Oh well, good luck!

Tom