A few have asked that I send them the source to my serial port program, and many
have struggled with the MSCOMM control, so I set up a small program and a small
page for it.

The program I am currently using to send and receive with the serial port on my
win98 PC is located here:
http://ubasics.com/adam/electronics/ha/software.shtml

Please read the entire (short) web page about it before trying to use it.

The software includes source code, and uses the MSCOMM control in visual basic.
It is not as polished as I like, but it will give you an idea of how to set
things up.  It currently only operates at 9600bps, 8n1, no handshaking, though
you can set the port to any port com1-4 while it is running.

I hope this is useful.  Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated, but I
don't plan on having this do much more than it does now.

-Adam