reading and writing to Fanuc's RS232 port

[BobM3]

I'm having a great time trying to read and write to the RS232 port on my Fanuc RH controller. I'm trying to send ASCII files back and forth to my PC. I'm sure I have the cable and port specs right because I can redirect the console output through the port and it works fine. I think I'm formatting the WRITE, READ and OPEN statements incorrectly. Any sample WRITE, READ and OPEN statements would help.