Quote Originally Posted by camoore
Gentlemen (or ladies?) I feel that it is time to terminate the current discussion in this thread, unless a new contributor would care to add further helpful information.

For CD Drive, I comment that I have never been in any doubt as to the difference between a USB connected device which provides RS-232 ports (commonly available and which I confirm can work very well with VB) and the suggested converse which would be something which plugs into a RS-232 port and provides a USB interface. I believe that if CD Drive were to re-read carefully my posted replies, it would be seen that I was at pains to make the appropriate differentiation between the two opposing concepts. Maybe the latter is just a "holy grail", but were it to be achievable it would be very useful surely? One can not but ask and suggest.

I regret somewhat that contributors to this excellent forum can apparently become so worked up and rather harsh in their subsequent postings about the stated opinions/questions of others. We all have to learn somehow - in part that is why we join such forums. Doubtless we all, depending upon our particular professional backgrounds, have something which we can teach to the benefit of others. It behoves us all to remember that just as any piece of hardware or software probably has limitations, so do we ourselves. Just because something has not been done before does not per-se mean that it can not be achieved.

It is to be noted that the opriginator of this thread does not seem to have responded further. For some reason, recent thread posts have not automatically been e-mailed to me by way of notification. Might this have also applied to the originator?

camoore
Some time ago I stopped getting email notifactions, so I changed my email address to a gmail account that forwards to the one i was using in the first place. Don't know why but it worked.