> In Windows98 you can Do ControlPanel->System->DeviceMangaer->Ports and so on > to get to the advanced properties for a serial port and switch off the FIFO, > but probably a serial program can override all these settings. I seem to > remember having done that but it will take me some time to find the info on > MSDN...there is an iocontrol struct you can configure somewhere to use > specific hardware handshake lines and possible control the FIFO use. > /\/\/\/*=Martin The logical place would be in the settings in the DCB passed to the WinAPI SetCommState, but of course that is not it. I'm not sure where to look in MSDN for IOCTLs that apply to the serial device. I've never bumped into them. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads