Hi Dave :-)

How are you ?

Tried the code exactly as you suggested ...

On the receiver end it seems like debug is just WAITing forever to receive the number 9 match but it never seems to get it, so that's where the program stops.
I thought it might be the order of the numbers so I changed their order but that didn't fix the problem.

Is it possible that the problem could be on the receiver PIC as I still have a serout line to send the data to the PC serial port to view in hyperterminal.
Is it ok to run debug and serin in the same PIC ( wondering if this is a silly question) or should I use debug to transmit to hyperterminal as well ?

Could the problem be that I have the DEFINE statements in the wrong place ? I noticed an extra space character in the code snippet you posted between mode and 0 .. removed that and recompiled but still no joy :-(

Any suggestions ?

Here's the code :
Receiver
Code:
'debug defines begin here - necessary for degug operation
    DEFINE DEBUG_MODE 0    ' Debug sending TRUE serial data
    DEFINE DEBUG_REG PORTC  ' Debug Port = PortC
    DEFINE DEBUG_BIT 4      ' Debug.bit = PortC.4
    DEFINE DEBUG_BAUD 2400  ' Default baud rate = 2400
    'debug defines end here
    
'Main code begins here       

        Pause 2000       ' Wait for LCD to startup
        
test:                                                         
        lcdout $fe,1 
                lcdout "starting tx rx"
     '*******************************************           
    '*SERIN PORTC.4,T2400,[9],net 'prepare to receive the data from other PIC
    '*this lines works perfectly to send data
     '*******************************************
     '
     '****heres the same thing using debugin (RX)- check/adjust defines for settings
     DEBUGIN [WAIT("9"),DEC net]
     '****end of debug line
    lcdout "rx complete"
    pause 1000
    lcdout $fe,1 'clear lcd screen
IF net = 3 then 
    lcdout $fe,1 
    LCDOUT "data is ",dec net 'look for the number 3 
    pause 2000
endif  
    lcdout $fe,1
    lcdout "begin serout to hyperterminal"
    pause 1000
    LOOKUP  net,[0,"123A456B789C*0#D"],net 'use lookup table to diplay proper display in hyperterminal
' send net variable to hyperterminal using serout 
    serout PORTC.3,T2400,["the key pressed or received value is ",net,10,13] 
    lcdout $fe,1
    goto test
end
Transmitter
Code:
'debug defines begin here
    DEFINE DEBUG_MODE 0    ' Debug sending TRUE serial data
    DEFINE DEBUG_REG PORTC  ' Debug Port = PortC
    DEFINE DEBUG_BIT 4      ' Debug.bit = PortC.4
    DEFINE DEBUG_BAUD 2400  ' Default baud rate = 2400
    'end of debug defines

LED var PORTd.0   ' Alias PORTD.0 to LED


    
loopy:
high LED '  LED on
        Pause 1000       ' Delay for .5 seconds
	low led 'LED off
         Pause 1000       ' Delay for .5 seconds
         '*this serout lines works perfectly :-)
         'SEROUT PORTC.4,T2400,[9,3]
                   '**another example - SerOut PORTC.6,T2400,["are you receiving this tx from 16f887 ",datatx]
        'DEBUG line starts here
        DEBUG 3,9
        'end of debug line
        
        pause 1000
           Goto loopy  ' Go back to loop and blink LED forever
        End
'End of all code