I am connected to a terminal session through vb6 and I am sending out
commands, however I am waiting for a particular response before I execute
another set of commands.

What is the best way to do that?

I used something similar to the code below with bad results, where am i
going wrong?

do until
mscomm1.input = "end"
loop.

Yep I am a newbie.

Allan

do until
mscomm1.input = "end"
loop.
<<

Should look more like this:

Dim Buffer As String
Dim Succeed As Boolean
Do 'until Timeout = True, perhaps
    Buffer = Buffer & MSComm1.Input
    If InStr(Buffer, "end") Then
        Succeed = True
        Exit Do
    Else
        DoEvents
    End If
Loop
If Succeed = True Then 'etc

You need to add DoEvents inside this loop.  You also may want to add a
method for waiting until some time has expired and return an error if a
response is not received before that time has expired.

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