CHR(12) is a character needed by the POS display to reset its buffer.

Joaquim

>>With VFP 7.0 in Windows 2000 i am trying to send data to a POS display connected to serial port 1 with the following code:
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>>* Comm 1 with 9600 baud, no parity, 8 data, and 1 stop bit.
>>mscomm1.CommPort = 1
>>mscomm1.Settings = "9600,n,8,1"
>>mscomm1.PortOpen = .t.
>>mscomm1.Output = CHR(12) + "test..."
>>mscomm.PortOpen = .f.
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>>But i receive an error message when the program tries to open the door, this is the message: "OLE IDispatch exception code 0 from MSComm: Could not set comm state, there may be one or more invalid communications parameters...".
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>>Why did this happened? the port is really serial port 1, and i think that the parameters are OK, at least when i print a test page from the printer driver (i also defined this POS display as a printer), with the same parameters this display works well.
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>>Somebody help me...
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>>Thank you
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>What is CHR(12) ?