my name is steve
I have only 1 serial port com1 RS232
and want to interface Qbasic to PBP
I am using QB7.1
it's very great compiles to EXE & downward compatable
is there a way to use both Qbasic
and melabs loader at the same time on 1 port
i am using the Max232 so i would use true not inverted
but what is open & driven?
i am using pins 6 & 7 on Pic16F877
hardware USART,
i would like to use Asynchronous no hand shaking
It would be nice to see some completed programs
from those who dun it
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' PicBasic Pro program to send and receive from the hardware serial port

char VAR BYTE ' Storage for serial character

start: HSerout ["Hello World", 13, 10] ' Send text followed by carriage return and linefeed

loop: HSerin 10000, start, [char] ' Get a char from serial port

HSerout [char] ' Send char out serial port

GoTo loop ' Do it all over again

End
----------------------Qbasic
OPEN "COM1:9600,N,8,1,BIN" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
print #1 A$

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Thanks