Not Hyperterminal !

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If you use Hyperterm or similar program , this free windows program can improve
the serial communication interaction for your PIC projects. Simple identifier characters
locate your data to specific boxes for display...........

seroutXXX "_A GENERATOR STARTING IN 22 MINUTES _"
pause etc.........
seroutXXX "_A GENERATOR STARTING IN 21 MINUTES _"
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seroutXXX "_A GENERATOR STARTING NOW, press to cancel _"

----will update the box on the MAIN PAGE with the latest data received,

GENERATOR STARTING NOW, press to cancel

seroutXXX "_T MONDAY 6/26/2008 10:24:59 _"
will place MONDAY 6/26/2008 10:24:59 in the time box on DATA PAGE.

With your PIC circuit set up to receive, the program can send back data to interact with your project including setting a RTC real-time-clock, or sending 100 characters of text to store on PIC.

The interface may look a little dated but is very functional for serial PIC to PC interaction.
The VB.Net program can be downloaded from........

http://www.trentjackson.bigpondhosting.com/deploy.zip

Inexpensive customization of the interface is available such as page layout or main lable
" ACME MACHINE CONTROLLER... 800-555-1234 " etc.

don
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