"Glenn Farrow" <ghf at mailandnews.com> wrote in message news:8F3FD1F1Bbillybobhotmailcom at 166.93.207.145... > > >>> iRead = ns.Read(sBuf, 4096) sBuf = ns.Read(None, 4096) should work. Although it probably wont unless you have run makepy for the type-library... Mark.