I misstated to parameters - the devise is expecting serial communications, and I have a USB->RS232 adaptor. So the program can look at the port as a RS232 port (coms 1-4).

-Chris

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Chris Kelling wrote

I misstated to parameters - the devise is expecting serial communications, and I have a USB->RS232 adaptor. So the program can look at the port as a RS232 port (coms 1-4).

There is Lazarus source code here that should be easy to use (nothing to install):
http://ctrlterm.com/ports.htm

Regards,
Paul
www.TurboControl.com

Chris Kelling wrote

So the program can look at the port as a RS232 port (coms 1-4).

You could try to use SynaSer or some other library that supports serial communication.

-Michael
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