>Well, I haven't seen any murders yet, just a problem to solve. If you wish, let's just go to email with the rest of this. I doubt that anything we are doing here is very useful to the general VFP public. However, we could go on to create the longest thread ever?

There's at least one of the general VFP public very interested in this thread still ! I am in the process of looking at transferring an application that uses a lot of serial comms to VfP - so problems of this type are of direct relevance.

If you do take it off-line, I would still be intersted in hearing the solution.