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Thanks for the reply! Downgrading isn't an option, I'm afraid- our IT people are forcing XP down our throats because of the new "active directory" stuff, and they won't let a PC on the network unless it has either XP or 2000. And it'd take QUITE a long time to rewrite all of that stuff in VB.... It ...

I'm up against a brick wall, I think. I have production test equipment all over our factory that relies on continuously polling dataacquisition systems over a serial port. When I try to run this stuff under XP, the serial communication is erratic at best, sometimes being interrupted for seconds at a...

I just tested the SHELL command on an XP box, with QuickBasic 4.5 and it worked fine.......
what I'm having trouble with is reliable serial communications. I'm gonna post a new topic on this problem.