Thanks for all the responses. I was interested in mister_e's suggestion of using DEBUG or DEBUGIN. He mentions limitations, but if they take the same mofifiers as serin/out2, then I wonder what these could be?

Also, why is it able to run more quickly? It must have something to do with the overhead going on in the background with the different commands...?

I've just been sitting down trying to write a parser for NMEA data to read in at 9600. Its all CSV, but annoyingly some of the fields are of varying length, making parsing a pain. I can tell the PIC to read a string until a certain charatcter is reached, or to read in x bytes and interpret as a number, but I cna't tell it to read in bytes until a certain character is reached (i.e a comma) then interperet as a number. I could probably read in as a string, then convert though...

Oh well, will get there at some point :-)

Cheers,

Ben