Communications Example : PC to PIC bi-directional dialogue

[Melanie]

I would query first that perhaps you are not receiving 100% good Data...

Replace ReadLoop with this code...

ReadLoop:
	DEBUGIN [DataA]
	DEBUG DataA," ",HEX2 DataA,10,13
	Goto ReadLoop

This will echo the HEX representation of what has been received... so if you type Richard you should get...

R 52
i 69
c 63
h 68
a 61
r 72
d 64

where the character is what you typed along with its HEX as confirmation of good data...

If every 2nd character is not what you expected, then time to find out why...

[grounded]

thanks
I will "play" some more
I thought I mite have missed something when I converted

[grounded]

up date
I tried using hyperterminal and everything works just as it should
I then tried MCS serial communicator (again) with readloop get hex and all I got was R 52
SOO the code is good , the hardware is good there is just something I'm missing using MCS comm. One big difference hyperterm. is real time key stroke to echo, MSC only after manual CR.
I also tried realterm. sometime the echo worked but never the LED (BLINK, SWEEP, ON OFF ETC.) ideals.
thanks