>From the manual's user supplied comments: (Looks like this is for a windows machine) http://us4.php.net/fopen // Use this code to write directly to the COM1 serial port // First, you want to set the mode of the port. You need to set // it only once; it will remain the same until you reboot. // Note: the backticks on the following line will execute the // DOS 'mode' command from within PHP `mode com1: BAUD=9600 PARITY=N data=8 stop=1 xon=off`; $fp = fopen ("COM1:", "w+"); if (!$fp) { echo "Uh-oh. Port not opened."; } else { $e = chr(27); $string = $e . "A" . $e . "H300"; $string .= $e . "V100" . $e . "XL1SATO"; $string .= $e . "Q1" . $e . "Z"; echo $string; fputs ($fp, $string ); fclose ($fp); } Mark Cain ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nandar" <Nandar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 11:01 PM Subject: Com 1 Hi,. any one to know, how to send ascci file to com1 port from php ?? thx, nandar -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php