Quote Originally Posted by fignewt View Post
Also is there someplace I can find an example of how this would work.
Welcome newbie, the link posted below is not a factitious gesture it is a "Special" Google link that will if the check box is ticked, search just this forum. Lots of serial com. examples in here, and as Melanie pointed out USART uses Hserin/out, so you are free to use serin,serin2, shiftin, . . .

http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&c...picbasic.co.uk