>Gerard,
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>>David, thanks for your reply. I forgot to mention that I need access to the serial port from a FPW app.
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>I think you can use the LLFF to talk to ports in FPW, I've never done it though so I can't help more I don't do FPW anymore.

I don't think that Windows lets you talk to the ports through LLFF at all anymore. So VFP, FPW *must* use a another method, like MSCOMM for VFP or some 3rd party .FLL, etc for FPW.