On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:00:13 -0500, Richard Mellina wrote:
>MSCOMM is an Active X control that allows you to send and=
 receive
>data via a PC's serial port. It comes with VB6 Enterprise and
>Professional. If you have the Learning edition a MSCOMM clone=
 is
>availed for download free of charge at
>http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/richard_grier/xmcomm.ht=
m

I have the Enterprise edition. The MSCOMM control does not allow=
 you to
manipulate or test the individual port lines. In my application I=

programmed lines to control the programming mode as well as=
 provide
clock and data signals for the programming protocol.

>I have played around with WIN95IO.DLL which is also free. Info=
 on
>using it to control a parallel port is available at
>http://www.aaroncake.net/electronics/vblpt.htm

I'll give that one a look but now that I've bought the other and=
 it
does both port types it may be harder to change!

Thanks for the pointers,

Tim

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