>>>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.
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>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!

Installation oif the MSCOMM32 control is fairly straightforward; nothing to worry about beyond putting the control on the local machine and registering it.