I'm sorry Brian, but the "rate this answer" doesn't show on your latest reply?????
As for the query thing, you're right, it doesn't make sense to be able to do both I guess. So either I'll have the computer request each data by sending "?Temp1" requests and listen for the replies, or else I will have the satellite just "spew" out data in a predetermined pattern, using "!Temp1" so I know were the data belongs. I've read some on the parsing VI's but I'm having problems seeing how I can use them to further my needs. The data itself will not be ASCII, it will most likely be binary. Simply because some of the data is 13 or even 16 bits wide, it will take considerable more "bandwidht" to transmit the ASCI equivalent to the data than just transmitting it binary. As I said, I feel very unsure about how to handle this using parsing? Example: temperature-probe 1 returns 10 databits, looking at the received string it might look like this: [T][e][m][p][1][8 msb of data][2lsb of data + 6 padding bits] Each bracket signifying 8 bits in the incomming stream. How can I search for and find "Temp1" and then when I do, extract the 8msb and 2lsb and then build them into the 10bit data that I need?
