Re: serial port in xp
Windows XP, and in general NT, have mechanisms in place which prevent you from accessing the serial port directly like you used did in Win95/98/Me.
In order to allow legacy code to work have a look at: **broken link removed** essentially it includes a driver which will allow older code to work.
You can access the serial port (and any other device) using the Windows API CreateFile() function and set the DCB structure. Have a look at:
- Jayson