David Wright writes: > Yes, it would have been more sensible to write 2400 baud/bps, as they're > the same for a port. Not for an asynchronous port. The baud rate is symbols per second and counts the start, stop, and parity bits (if any). bps is data bits per second and usually works out to 80% of the baud rate. -- John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI