thanx for everything mel. I'm off to jam it together.

-first i'm going to try and poll for an arrival and then use hserin...knowing that there is something there...shouldn't lose any time.
-Second, i'll try polling and then go straight to the registers and transfer in...no hserin. Mind you here there is no control on assignment to variables and control bytes. I liked what you showed me the other day with an ending confirmation byte...
-third...everything working well....place the usart reception bit into interrupt status and run it as an interrupt....

mel...u'sart the bestest...garret