Visual Basic Serial Port Problem

<p>I have been trying to do following with my embedded board:
Send command, read response (parse string from the response), send another command, read response (parse string from the response)...

<p>Until now I have no success.

<p>I found that the when I parse the string in response to the 1st command issued and then I send another command, the board has already passed the instance where I want to send the command. How do I synchronize this?

<p>Here is the code I am using:
<pre>
Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()
MSComm1.CommPort = 4
MSComm1.Settings = "115200,N,8,1"
MSComm1.InputLen = 0
MSComm1.RThreshold = 1
MSComm1.SThreshold = 0

MSComm1.DTREnable = True
MSComm1.PortOpen = True

Open "C:\K113.txt" For Append As #1

End Sub

Private Sub MSComm1_OnComm()
Dim strInput As Variant
Dim tmp As String
Dim val As Integer
tmp = ""

Select Case MSComm1.CommEvent
Case comEvReceive


strInput = MSComm1.Input
val = StrComp(tmp, strInput, vbTextCompare)
Do While (val <> 0)



strInput = MSComm1.Input
Print #1, strInput; 'send output to file, semicolon required
strBuf = strBuf & strInput 'append master buffer
If InStrRev(strBuf, "DRAM") Then
'if string found send another command to the board
MSComm1.Output = Chr$(13) + "printenv" + Chr$(13)

ElseIf InStrRev(strBuf, "gatewayip") Then

MSComm1.Output = Chr$(13) + "md 0x100000" + Chr$(13)


End If


Loop

End Select

Close #1
End Sub

Private Sub Reboot_Click()
Dim Reboot As Variant


Reboot = Chr$(13) + "reboot" + Chr$(13)
MSComm1.Output = Reboot

End Sub
</pre>

<p>How do I fix this? Any pointers? Any sample code? Examples?