>>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?

Yes