Hi John,
Try here
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q154/7/41.asp or do a search in MSDN for "mscomm binary". gives a basic example for binary transfer.
>Hey Everyone,
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>In the remarks section of the OutPut property of the MSCOMM control's help file, it says:
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>To send binary data, you must pass a Variant which contains a byte array to the Output property.
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>How do I do that from VFP? Anyone know? Thanks a lot,
>John