Some of the PICs have an onboard UART and I'm not familiar with implementing it.

So, some very basic questions to save some time...

This uart will work in the background continuously while my code is executing?

What are the commands I should be looking at?.....is the HSERIN and HSEROUT? (So, if I use HSEROUT, it starts the uart and it will keep running?).

Any other special things I should know about setting up a register or something?

THANKS.

I've always used the software RS232 on my PIC projects but time to move up and do it the smart way.