[Venkatesh]

Thanks Jeff,

Also, thanks KevinB. The ASC$ function was able to help me display the data correctly. I had never used that function before.

As soon as I make some good, usable dashboard code in Qbasic, I will post it. I am having a number of problems, such as the program crashing Windows 9x machines if it is run when the OI is off. Also, occationally the computer is unable to synchronize with the input frame of 26 bytes (especially if at least one byte is a 255) and displays garbage for a few frames.

Now I have a question for programmers out there. Qbasic is not particularly suited to visualization. I was only planning on using it to read the data from the serial port and feed it into something fancier. No Screenmode 13 graphics here =).

I was planning on having Qbasic output data into textfiles, stored on a Ramdisk. Then, I was thinking of using a few perl scripts and a webserver, to have the data available in a web browser. Can any of you tell me about any different (better) schemes for showing off data?