help me...

[mister_e]

PIC #
OSC speed
Hardware?
Config Fuses?

i suspect, at least, that your PIC have some analog stuff to be disable on PORTA

[tkly36]

PIC16F84A and max 232
4Mhz
using windows hyperterminal to communicate

sorry not mention the component...

is there any way that i can input a number or letter with more that 1 character in a single variable.?

[mister_e]

Seems to be a baudrate problem. Be sure you set this crap Hyperterminal Baudrate and all settings correctly first. Sorry... i hate Hyperterminal. That's the worst PC program i've never ever seen in my whole life. MicroCode Studio Serial Communicator is a good one.

Try to remove the CHAR_PACING stuff first or change Terrminal program

For what it worth, How about your schematics?

Are you sure that your crystal really run @4MHZ ?

For your last question, define an ARRAY variable of n elements then use SERIN2 with STR modifier.

serin2 PORTA.2,t2400,[kdg.0,kdg.1 ]

i'm pretty sure it's not a valid statement. Have a look to SEROUT, SEROUT2 modifier list

[tkly36]

can you show me some example about using SERIN2 with STR modifier.

i still confuse about SERIN ,SERIN2 and SEROUT, SEROUT2.

please....