At 02:56 AM 10/2/99 GMT, you wrote:
>HI
>I WOUL LIKE TO KNOW HOW TO COMUNICATE TO A PIC (16C71) FROM A VISUAL BASIC
>APPLICATION THROUGH AN MSCOMM OBJECT. IF I WANT TO SEND A BYTE (80h) WHAT DO
>I HAVE TO WRITE IN MY MSCOMM.OUTPUT STRING?
>THE INPUT MODE PROPERTY IS BINARY OR TEXT?
>THANKS
>
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Hi
Dig around in the help section looking specifically for the key word
MSCOMM, and ONCOMM.  Most of what you need will be in there.  Also look in
the examples.  I found a sample dumb terminal program listed under one or
the other of these two topics that provided an excellent example of how to
do two way communications.

In a nutshell:
        set up the port for port number, baud rate, etc.
        if you are sending and receiving control characters (non-printing) be su
re
to set up for binary input mode.
        turn it on
        send something out.
If you get really stuck, let me know and i can send some code snippets from
a current program we are developing to talk to our loggers.
Kelly



William K. Borsum, P.E. -- OEM Dataloggers and Instrumentation Systems
<borsum@dascor.com> & <www.dascor.com>San Diego, California, USA