Thanks for your help. I ended up doing it another way. I'm going to use something like the following. Do you see problems other than non-portability to systems that don't use ascii 13 for...

This is prob. no help at all but...several years back I was using an STM that was controlled by a pretty old DOS box. The system had two monitors...one to control the instrument and a second for...

First post here...I found this site looking for similar information. I'm using win32, but am totally unfamilliar with the windows.h header. I currently only know standard c++. How would one go...