True. There are better controls available from a variety of vendors for file transfer automation.
>MSCOMM is a low-level port manipulation abstraction of serial comms; if you are expecting to find file-level concepts, like single simple statements that send or receive a file, support of various transfer protocols and the like, MSCOMM is not a solution for you. It sends and receives low-level streams of data.
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