Problem with Serial Port communication program

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serial-port

Hi guys!
I managed to come up with some code for making a Serial Port Device communicate with a computer wherein I send it some data and it sends the same data back to me (as a test program). However, the device sends back some different data.

THe code is as follows :

#include <stdafx.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <dos.h>
#define MAX 5000 //max length of delay time period
#define COM1 (unsigned short)0x3F8 // Serial Port COM1
#define COM2 (unsigned short)0x2F8 // Serial Port COM2

int TestSerial();
int Delay(int num);

int main(void)
{
  int rc=0;
  printf("\n");
  rc=TestSerial();
  if(rc!=0)
    printf("Error in TestSerial()!\n");
  else
    printf("Success with TestSerial!\n");
  return 0;
}

int TestSerial()
{
  int index, value, result=0;
  printf("Begin to execute outp() & inp() ... \n");
  for(index=0; index<10;index++)
  {
     printf("Data sent to COM1 is : %d \n",index);
     _outp(COM1,index);
     Delay(500);
     value=_inp(COM1);
     printf("Data returned from COM1 is : %d \n",value);
     if(value!=index)
     {
       printf("Error in loop testing of COM1! \n");
       result=-1;
       return result;
     }
  }
  return result;
}

int Delay(int num)
{
  int m,n,cycle=MAX;
  for(m=0;m<=num*cycle; m++)
    n=m-1;
  return 0;
}

The problem I am facing is that the device returns different data EVERY time (which is not the sent data of 1-9). Could you please help me out ?
Also, I thought of a way where in _outp() I send a comman that is specific to the device - say it is an instruction in C only .. but then that kind of limits the scope of my program's usage. :(

P.S. I have used #include <> only but the HTML preview prevents the appropriate usage.

[EDIT: Added tags to code block and restored include statements]