Hi Al ...

Sorry to hear about the long hard work day :-( it was a public holiday in my country .. so it felt like a weekend :-)

I tried the code and checked the lines in red.

I excitedly (stupidly I gues) just copied and pasted it in .... :-)
Well it didn't I now only ever see a 0 in hyperterminal for any number keyed in following the #

Time to debug :-) , if you see anything obvious just let me know and I will test.. will keep you posted

Kind regards

Dennis