was wondering how i can send binary to a comm port and out to a certain circuit.this will be used in home automation and the technology is based on 8051 and 8052 processors.the chips use flash eeprom storage. another words, i will build the circuit, but instead of putting the chip in the circuit, i will run the code from the comm port to the circuit, without the actual chip being there.i am new to programming,and just started using c++ after finding out vb wasnt powerfull enough.any thoughts on what books to buy on learning c++, and lerning c++ comm port communication would be helpfull.