> On Sep 19, 2008, at 8:38 AM, John Ferrell wrote:
> 
>> What level of Visual Basic would I have to buy to make the serial  
>> interface (or USB or Parallel) available to the programming process?

Talking to the COM port is one of the most basic
things to do on a PC. Even a BAT script can do that.

*Any* programming should be able to "use" the COM port
(maybe not some web browser scripting tools becuse of
security reasons...)
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