>I have a VFP datalogger application that reads data from the COM ports of a PC and stores the data to a table.
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>I use the MSCOMM OLE control to handle the data flow at the ports and for most configurations everything works well. However with one data source (which is a relatively constant flow of data) it seems to work but occasionly, at random, bits of program/form methods are inserted into the data.
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>I would assume that the problem is one of configuration of the COM port except for the fact that I have a FoxPro DOS version of this application (that does not use MSCOMM obviously) that has worked perfectly for 10 years without any data corruption.
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>Anyone got any ideas as to what could be the problem
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>TIA

Doru left a message about this (?) a little while ago. If I recall, the machine was a 486/25.

You're not trying to run the new VFP datalogger app on the same old PC, are you? If you are, does it have a 16550 UART in the comm port?