Reading data of COM-port

[Mark]

With the GetByte command I am reading a certeain amount of data of the
COM-port. The problem is that I do not know the amount of data.
And the GetByte command waits until it has received a byte, so there is a
problem when there is no data coming from the COM-port.

Has anyone a suggestion how to deal with this problem.

[Floyd Burger]

Re: Reading data of COM-port

yep, do your blocking reads from a separate thread.

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Floyd

"Mark" <Mark@discussio ns.microsoft.co m> wrote in message
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> With the GetByte command I am reading a certeain amount of data of the
> COM-port. The problem is that I do not know the amount of data.
> And the GetByte command waits until it has received a byte, so there is a
> problem when there is no data coming from the COM-port.
>
> Has anyone a suggestion how to deal with this problem.[/color]