Hi,

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I have a colleague..
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...that seems to be having some problems with the standard MSCOMM control
delivered with VB6. From what I understand, he is attempting to fetch a
number of characters when triggered by the 'ON COM' event, but it seems
that there are often less characters available than are reported in the
input length property.

I seem to remember something like this being discussed on this list way
back in the past (although I cannot find any archived info) and someone
suggested that they knew where there was a free VB Control that did the
same job as the MSCOMM control but better. Can anyone remember if this is
correct/point me to the link ?

Failing that, I suppose that he could just be using the MSCOMM control
incorrectly; does anyone have any examples of a reliable vb<-->micro uart
scheme that he can compare?

Regards,
Dan

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