Real life install: 18 9600 baud Dumb Serial ports on a 7.16M 286. No lost characters. Beleive me, these people would find them. Rob -- I once was here but now I'm not. And no one's gonna pin it on me... Robert Kenyon - {trwrb,hplabs}!felix!dhw68k!rob - InterNet: rob at dhw68k.cts.com