I'm posting this for a friend who is a C++ newbie. Please forgive me if I get the terminology wrong as I don't use C++ myself. He is looking for a subroutine to set COMM port parameters. Is there a standard routine for this? tia -- (0 0) --oo0--U--0oo-------------------------------- SandMan@li.net * http://www.li.net/~sandman ---------------------------------------------