Actually, that doesn't say the same thing, at least as far as the actual transfer is concerned. In that VB code it's not reading one byte initially to get the number of bytes, and then reading that many bytes. So, you must have gotten that information from somewhere else. What I've usually seen in these kinds of transfers is that the first byte is just a marker, then you get 2 bytes to indicate how many digits will follow to indicate the number of bytes of data. Somewhere else in that manual it should have the exact structure of the data that is being returned by the instrument.
