hi to every body im trying to make a comunication by serial port using an example that is found in this page its name is comtest with this program i can send info with my mini to my desktop machine, but when i try to do the contrary (send info wth my desktop machine to my mini) it doesnt happend anything, i modify the code: commenting the following lines: if (FD_ISSET(CommFd, &ReadSetFD)) { /* while (read(CommFd, &Char, 1) == 1) { WaitFdWriteable(TtyFd); if (write(TtyFd, &Char, 1) < 0) { Error(strerror(errno)); } if (OutputToStdout) { if (UseColor) fwrite("\x1b[01;34m", 1, 8, stdout); OutputStdChar(stdout); if (UseColor) fwrite("\x1b[00m", 1, 8, stdout); fflush(stdout); } if (Char == 'z') { z ++; if (z >= 3) printf("prueba andres\n"); } else z = 0; } */ } instead of that i put printf("pruebad\n"); and when i type something in my desktop machine my mini recieve alots of messages : pruebad how can i fix it? after that i put this code (i want to know how many times this messeages repeat. int cm=1; int i=1; while(i <= 300) { printf( "%d ", cm ); cm ++; i ++; } and i realize that my messeage repits 1500! the same messeage and for that reason my first program didnt work, how can i fix it? thanks