>I've tried using the example from Microsoft (KB Q154741), but all I'm getting as input is a heap of garbage characters that I cannot use. What am I doing wrong?
>Thanks

While I use ComTools, (order from Hallogram), the most common problem I have had with receiving garbage characters is one of the following settings:

28800 baud, no parity, 8 data, and 1 stop bit

We have some computers that we must just experiment with to get the correct settings. Sometimes the parity setting will be different from computer to computer.
Hope this helps.
Denis