PIC HANGS with SERIN and Timeout?

[Ron Marcus]

I haven't had a problem with spaces in PBP2.50, had problems back in 2.42 I think it was.
I've got a program that has about 50-60 different SERIN2 lines and they all look like:

SERIN2 serialinpin , 84 , 5000 , baddata , [ WAIT ( ">" ) , STR string\255 ]

Lots of spaces, etc.etc.etc...like I said, the older PBP, broke, newer, good.

This may be a moot point, but, I recently had the hang situation with a GPS unit interface. The unit's serial output would go to ground when the unit was put into sleep. I did a little loop that would sense if the line went high at all over a hundred mS period. If not,I would skip the Serin line. It works quite well without any hardware changes.
Ron