Anthony Low wrote: > Can anyone email me a basic code, to get the hardware USART > working for RS232 comms Tx and Rx... i have followed the way the manual > says, but the pic does not Tx anything. There is a link from my PIC page to a hardware UART test/demo program. This program is interrupt driven and uses circular I/O buffers, and also contains code for reading and writing hexadecimal numbers. The circular buffer code is also useful for other applications. Cheers, Eric http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/pic/