>>Whoa, John. I am a bit lost, now. Are you trying to drive the terminal to drive the DEC? If so, show me your hardware setup.
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>Originally, using VFP to drive Emulator software to Drive the DEC. Now trying to hit the DEC directly from VFP using the MSCOMM control. I'm not sure what you mean, I have a Windows PC, sending info down a serial connection (com1) to the DEC. There is a Telex C078 terminal on the DEC.
>John

I got sidetracked. You can, with some terminals, set them to "transparent" mode whereby your application can take control of the terminal and redirect output to an auxillary port, be it a modem or printer or another host. As long as you have a single cable from your PC to the DEC, I got the picture.

How about letting me see a piece of your FWRITE() code that works? Something very subtle is happening here, and I can't see it in 4 different setups.