Stefan, VB5 and 6 will do 115K using the MSComm control. As far as
QBasic, I'm not sure how to use it but you can still go directly to the
hardware. If you speak C, I can provide low-level examples.

   - Tom

At 05:00 PM 7/26/99 +0100, Stefan Sczekalla-Waldschmidt wrote:
>Tom Handley wrote:
>>
>>    Stefan, you can use any language you want. Some have better high-level
>> support than others. I use C/C++ and Visual Basic v5. You can also access
>> the hardware directly but it's not `multitasking-friendly'... I often do
>> this for `in-house' work where I want exclusive access to a port. As far
>> as speed, 38400 is trivial. I can talk to a PIC16C77 at 115K in both C
>> and VB5.
>
>Oh ( wondering ) quickbasic was limited to 9k6,8,n,1 - this limitation
>is not given anymore within Visual-Basic 5 ( and 6 ) ??
>
>Kind regards,
>
>        Stefan

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