Re: Excel-RS232 via Cheapcomm: Where?

mscomm32.ocx is often a headache. The only sure way is to install VB6 (I am
not sure if you need the professional or enterprise editions for the
registration to occur). You can in fact uninstall VB6 immediately
afterwards without ever having used it, and the registration will still
stick. I guess you could do this with a borrowed copy without violating
the copyright.

However there is another alternative described here
http://archive.chipcenter.com/eexpert/rashby/rashby057.html

I have only been told of one case where this did not work, and I am not
certain that it was indeed a problem. Try it and see.

I describe using mscomm directly from Excel in two of the chapters of my
book

Excel by Example: A Microsoft Excel Cookbook for Electronics Engineers
published by Elsevier/Newnes
ISBN-10: 0750677562
ISBN-13: 978-0750677561
and available from most booksellers on the Internet.

-Aubrey Kagan


.