>>What's the easiest way to simply send a character to the serial port in VFP6. No protocol required, no ack. required.
>>Can I do it without an ocx or fll?
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>Through making a series of Win32 API calls, yes, but they are not platform-independent. Your best bet is to use the MSCOMM32 ActiveX control.

That's what I feared Ed. No problem using mscomm32 but it doesn't exist on all client machines, so I've got to install it. Dang.
I've also got Commtools but that's seems overkill!
Many thanks