NullDiscard

Indicates whether the com port will discard received Null characters

Available at design time and runtime.

MSComm32 and Comm32 have identical behavior

Syntax object.NullDiscard = value         object Name of the communications control.   value A Boolean expression (Default is False)         Examples       object.NullDiscard = True '// Set the value             If object.NullDiscard = True then       MsgBox("NullDiscard is enabled")   Else       MsgBox("NullDiscard is disabled") End If '// retrieve the current setting

Remarks:

If enabled then Null characters received by the hardware are simply ignored ie not entered into the receive buffer.