I have a VB6 application that needs to open a COM port and output a string. However, it appears that another process has the COM port open at the time I want to open it. I am using an MSComm control, and of course, when I try to open the port already in use an error is generated.

Does anyone know a way where I can output a string from my VB6 application when another thread has the port in use?

Thanks in advance for the help.