Brusque wrote:
>        I'm developing some equipment that comunicates
> with each other using 9 bits (the 9th bit indicates the
> start of a packet when set). Now I'm needing to make
> a PC application in Visual Basic to comunicate with this
> gear, but the MSComm control only works with 6/7/8 bit
> width.

   Add to the gear some cheapest PIC to translate "start"
 9 bits sending into some dedicated byte h'00' or h'FF' for
 example.

   Best regards.
   Mike.

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