You could use the MSCOMM32.OCX but if you need more help a guy called Dick
Grier has a book on it, if you go to the news.devx.com or
msnews.microsoft.com site's and post a question he'll probably answer.

HTH
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: David Nigel Roberts [mailto:robertdn@a...]
Sent: 20 August 2001 16:08
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] reading data from the serial port


I guess it is one of those things we take for granted until you need it.  
Yep now I need it...  I need to control/read data from a comm port.  The 
data coming in will be random, so I will need to buffer it.  I am not sure 
if I need to use a 'pipe' or if there is some other other function, API? 

Nigel