>>>>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
>
>Tom,
>
>I guess there is a good reason for that: I do not
>know what you are talking about. In BASIC I used
>to Open the com port and there is a code for
>initilising which worked.

Marc

Obviously you are not experienced at low level serial port handling <s>. This is good! It gets real deep real fast. When dealing direct with serial ports you must initialize buffers, set UART parameters at the biary level, etc. This is what I was getting at, wether you were dealing at a high or low level with the hardware. Obviously your at the higher level. Still do not know why fopen()/fclose() will not work for you. If you close the port & then reopen it Fox 'should' reinitialize the port for you.

Oh well, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. =;+)

Tom