I've noticed that when the serial device is closed, the USB serial device dumps any buffered data. Is this expected behavior? i.e ls -l >/dev/ttyUSB0 will not print everything (I'm missing some at the end) but (ls -l; sleep 30) >/de/ttyUSB0 will print everything. (this is at 110bd so it's probably longer than most people will see to drain the buffer) Michael