>I will have a display pole for a cash register that display whatever I send to COM1. Do I just set the printer to COM1 or will it be more complex ?
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>Thanks

Eric,
It depends. Does the pole display have a driver that makes the OS think it is a printer. If so, then you can simply write to that "printer" which is installed on COM1.

If not and you have to write explicitly to a serial device, then the cheapest solution would be to use the MSCOMM control. You could add it to a form/container and save it as a class. You could add your own PEMs to create an easy interface to write. You can get a small example at http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~MsComm32~VFP.

HTH.