At 00:33 02/24/99 -0500, Myke Predko wrote:
>Have you looked at Visual Basic?  It has the "MSComm" control that you can
>add very easily and very quickly write interface code.  It is the easiest
>way I've found to code up Serial Ports for the PC.

now that you say it, there are in fact a lot of commercial compiler which
have some kind of control or component which does that. before you buy
anything, check that out :)  and there are probably tons of freeware stuff
around for your particular programming environment, if you don't mind a bit
of tweaking on your own.

ge