Thank you Hans and John. I installed the newer version and now my simple patch is working correctly.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hans-Christoph Steiner</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:hans@eds.org">
hans@eds.org</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style=""><div><br></div><div>Sounds like you are using an old version of [comport].&nbsp; A much more recent version is included in the next test release:
</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html" title="http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html
</a></div><div><br></div><div>.hc</div><br><div></div><div><span class="e" id="q_10c839a898eb683a_1"><div>On Jul 18, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Jaime Villarreal wrote:</div><br></span></div><div><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote>
</div><div><span class="e" id="q_10c839a898eb683a_3">Hi, I'm new to pd and would like to comunicate via the comport.<br>I have a very simple patch which tries to send the number 1 to the comport object.<br>The comport is configured as follows.
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; comport $1 9600<br>Pd reports: <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Opened serial line device&nbsp; COM1<br>Ok. That's Good. But when I try to send anything I get,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Write error, maybe TX-OVERRUNS on serial line<br><br>My serial port, COM1, is the FTDI USB serial converter included on the arduino microcontroller board. I have been able to comunicate successfully through the USB converter with other software so I am sure it is not a problem with my converter. 
<br><br>I have taken screenshots of everything that I thought might be related and published them here.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.intra.org.mx/pd/" title="http://www.intra.org.mx/pd/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.intra.org.mx/pd/</a><br><br>If anyone can offer me any advice I'd be very grateful. <br></span></div><div><div style="margin: 0px;">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin: 0px;">
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