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Clemens <Clemi@hotmail.com> wrote in message <gecq5g$9ot$2@aioe.org>...
> 
> > 
> > Clemens, is that r2007a? I had some serial timeout issues and was advised to upgrade to r2008a
> 
>   which did fix my problem (a read problem). What version are you using?
> 
> Yes, that is exactly my problem. What I have read is that the serial 
> command is executed anyway despite the error so I should just use a try 
> and catch block to ignore it for now!
> 
> Cheers

If you can trap 'em its a good thing. If you still have any problems you can always just download a demo version (30-days) of r2008 and its instrument control toolbox to see if that fixes the problem.
Good luck!