Hi Luciano,

Yes, and no. Yes from the serial port, no from the terminal program, kinda. I'm using an RS232 chip into COM1. I'm using the serial window in IDE 'cause it's the only way I can transfer data down to the PIC. The reception variable is defined as VAR BYTE[5].

You probably know my opinion of HyperTerminal if you read my post in the other thread. LOL I'm trying RealTerm, but I don't know what I have to set. I get the COM1 8N1 thing done, but I must be missing other key parameters 'cause I can't get it to work.

My goal is to download a file in one instruction. Right now I'm sending parts of a record at a time manually. Good for testing, bad for final implementation. I have 2 sequential HSERINs for now:

HSERIN recordtype

IF recordtype = bla-bla-bla
HSERIN recordformat
ENDIF

When I send "recordtype-recordformat" in one SEND, it doesn't work. I'm still trying to figure what I'm missing. I can send both separately, but I can't chain them in a single string and have the program treat data section by section.

The plan is to add several other formats, and have them processed depending on the record type prefix. I'm still learning serial communication so I can quite easily have flaws in my approach. This works on main frames, but I'm not in Kansas any more.

Robert