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

My above comment was made as I saw the problem becoming very specific to John's host hardware and software. Just trying to reduce the "noise level" a bit. I have no problem with finishing our troubleshooting right here for your benefit, Len.