I definitetly agree with you,
It's the first time that I experience this problem.
at work I have a telephone exchage connect to a computer throught com 1
with 1200 baud rate and 8 as stopbit
we are able to read the data through hyper terminal however it very taf to alway pick the data at the end of the day and update it in a file.
so this is why I am thinking if there is a possiblity with Visual fox pro
to get the data directly and make any change possible.
thank you and best regards

Ounis