Hi Tracy,

Next time you want to experiment with these 'fast' computers, try disabling the UART FIFO as a test. It may be the hardware and/or BIOS implementation that causes the problem. I have seen several cases where this will get you by.

Another approach is something like:

DO WHILE yourcomm.inbuffercount>0
	DOEVENTS
ENDDO

might help. Just watch out for ways that may hang the app in this case. Good error handling is a must.

>I'm glad you got it working David, but I think WAY BACK WHEN I got that idea (pausing to clear the buffer on fast computers) from Jim Livermore originally! I have to do it on really FAST computers, but not on slow/moderate ones. It seems to have something to do with speed of the uart chip in the port and the drivers too.
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