I have been successful dropping the control on a form. I emailed you a form with an example of this. The result is displayed in a box on the form. It defaults to com2 when you run the form so you will have to change the mscomm control on the form properties to a different port by default if you want to it to be different than Com2.

tracy

>Hi all,
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>I'm creating an sms project where I send and receive sms from a GSM modem I success to send from a long time ago but now I want to read the buffer from the MSComm Active-X control which I'm using to send and for sure there is the input properiety in MSComm Active-X control, so the point is any one know how to read from the input Properiety and put the result in text box ?
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>Best Regards.
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>Hisham Serry