Barbara,

>Jim, I'm no expert, since I'm working on my first MSCOMM32 system, but I found it useful to store the input to a form property. I know that each 'message' will end with either chr(15) or chr(13) (hardware property), so I parse the value in the form property looking for each of these values. Then I cut the processed data off the form property, store it again and start all over. So far it's working fine. Before I did this, I kept getting partial messages in the input buffer. THen the buffer was emptied when I stored it to a variable and I was in a mess.

Thanks for the tips, I appreciate it.