I take it you have a PIC connected with just TX, RX and GND to your PC? If so,
 you set up Hyperterminal to use a Direct Connect to COMx. Set baud rate,
 parity, etc. to what your PIC program expects. Now here is the bit that stumped
 me for a couple of hours when I thought my circuit was faulty....switch OFF
 flow control, especially hardware flow control! The PC will not send to your
 PIC until it sees the hardware signals set correctly...but you dont have these
 connected so your PC will wait for a while then give up...your PIC wont see
 anything.

Hope this answers your question.

Kieran


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From:   David BALDWIN[SMTP:baldwin@ETCA.ALCATEL.BE]
Sent:   24 June 1997 14:32
To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject:        Hyperterminal

Does somebody knows how to configure and use Hyperterminal from Win95 to
use with PICS and receive/send data to RS232 line? thanks a lot.

David