>Does anione know how to read from COM port ?
>I'm desperat trying with fopen(), fread(), but no results !!!
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If this is FPDOS, the low-level file functions worked; you had to rely on the DOS MODE command to set the baud rate, bit masking, and any handshaking such as XON/XOFF or RTS/CTS. The functionality is there, but very minimal, and in all likelihood will not work reliably under NT or Win2K, which limit direct access to ports from a DOS session more severely than Win9x.

FPW and VFP did not handle the COM ports via low-level I/O; you needed a third-party add-on. VFP works with the MSCOMM32.OCX ActiveX control; the docs are available in the MSDN Library (also available online at msdn.microsoft.com) but the examples are in VB. There are samples in the Files Section and FAQ here on UT that demonstrate the use of the MSCOMM32 ActiveX control.

In most cases, you're better off using one of the third-party commercial packages such as CommTools; they are well worth the cost of the package, especially if you need things like file transfer and detailed protocol handling, since none of the low-level tools implement any view of the port as anything but a stream of bytes; no files, no inherent modem handling, etc. You can find CommTools and similar commercial products for FP/VFP at www.hallogram.com or www.componentsource.com