On 01/18/2013 03:47 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: RS232 is no longer common on average consumer PeeCees. ;) Sure it is. Just not on the motherboard. Really, it's not all that difficult to plug in a $5 USB<->serial adapter. Who the hell says terminal programs are hard to find? GNU Screen can be a terminal emulator, along with minty, HyperTerminal, putty the list goes on and on... I've heard it a lot. It's just the Windows people. "Terminal programs are EXPENSIVE!" No. Idiots. Go get a grownup OS and leave Windows for the videogames. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA