Quote Originally Posted by mister_e View Post
mm, so you could move what's on RC7 to RC5, and free BOTH USART pin? yeah some PCB mods... no harm, but bit of pain i agree..
i could but as i said ive already etched the PCBs as i didnt have any need to use the interrupt pin. any new circuits i do ill always use the interrupt pin as the serial input.

suppose if theres no other way to do it then i can just write my VB app to always send out so many characters