>I am placing chars into a textbox one at a time from an MS communications
>control.
>
>private sub MSComm1.oncomm()
> Text1.text=Text1.text + MSComm1.input
>end sub
>
>When chr(13) and chr(10) come in instead of doing a CRLF I get a "bar"
>character indicating a non-displayable character. Why doesn't vb
>just do the carriage return and linefeed move the next line
>down to the next line?

Have you set the MultiLine property to True?