Labview and communication with peripheral device help

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Originally Posted by Danny Diaz

First thing you want to do is install NI-VISA. This allows LabVIEW to talk with the serial ports. This also adds the Serial Communication VIs to LabVIEW.

You can find these VIs in the functions palette through the following path:

Data Communication -> Protocols -> Serial

These VIs will allow you to write and read bytes to/from the serial port.

If you need any other help let us know!
-Danny

thnx for your help....this VIs already installed. I have some time to play with this.
I have a further questions....if i send a character (or 2 character) command from labview through serial port (basically i have to use RS232), to the controller, can will it responses? The prevoius pascal program, controller did responsed with 2 CHaracter return......wht will i do for the same case in labview?