< I'd be tempted to take a cheap shot, and put one instance of a simple program on each port > I'm not sure I consider it a cheap shot but I agree with Lawson. I have a couple applications that solve a problem in this manner. By having Serial Clients communicate with the ports, you can have a server program do your work. The serial clients handle data communication and maybe translation. Larry G.
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