From: John Johnson Date: 2006-04-19T00:32:22+09:00 Subject: Win32 Serial Communications, maybe using mscomm.ocx Hello All, It's good to get back to the RT Mailing List! I'm looking for examples of using the mscomm control with this code: http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/35355 I'm working on a project that drives a serial label printer on a Windows host. I've been trying ruby-serialport-0.6 by Guillaume Pierronnet and Alan Stern. It works as long as no handshaking is needed, i.e. as long as I send data slower than the printer can print, it works. The problem is, I need to speed things up. At 4 seconds a label, a couple of thousand labels a day really adds up (~ 2 hrs). I found the aforementioned message about using the mscomm control from VB, I'm not to well versed on recent Win programming, but I assume this is mscomm.ocx. The code looks good, does anyone know where I can find examples of it's use? ADVthanksANCE! Regards, JJ --- Help everyone. If you can't do that, then at least be nice.