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As a general rule, you will want to open the serial port to the SV203 control-
ler when your program starts up, and close the port when the program ends.
To do this, right-click on the Project1 element in the Project Explorer window.

Select View Startup Code, and enter this code:

Sub Project_Startup()
SerialOpen(0, 9600)
End Sub

This code will, as you might guess, open the serial port for you. Note that
NS Basic automatically enters the Sub and End Sub lines of code, and all you
need to enter is the SerialOpen( ) function call.

Now right-click the Project element again and select View Termination
Code. Enter this code in the window:

Sub Project_Termination()
SerialClose()
End Sub

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