I've got to be missing something

[skimask]

Are you receiving the data as ASCII characters or as binary values?
In other words, in your example above...
Vector(1) --- is that a '9' as an ASCII character 9, ASCII value of $39 (57 decimal)?
Or 9 as in $09, %1001, decimal 9, as in I've got 9 fingers up, and one finger down?

If you're savvy enough (I like using that word savvy here lately ), you could look in the PBP manual under the SERIN2 statemen, and look at the DEC and WAIT modifiers. It just might (ok probably will) take care of everything for you without having to write a conversion routine.

[Perrin`]

decimal 57

[skimask]

decimal 57

Ok, again, look carefully at the SERIN2 command and it's modifiers.

What exactly is the format of the string you are receiving? How is it terminated (if at all)?

[Perrin`]

I've solved the problem in another way.

[skimask]

I've solved the problem in another way.

How did you do it?