From: nospam@tiscali.nl   
      
   Hi,   
      
   "Kevin Cross"  wrote in message news:1096469796   
   13675.0@spandrell.news.uk.clara.net...   
      
   > My program writes to the serial port every 50ms or so and I am finding that   
   > occasionally the serial port will not transmit - it pauses for half a second   
   > or so - then pungs out all the messages in one go.   
   >   
      
   You might want to try disabling the FIFO of the serial port in the XP machine.   
   I had some problems with a serial printer on XP that I solved this way.   
      
   regards, Matt   
      
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