If you are also writing the software on the PC side, just send the byte
over.  The getc routine gets an 8bit value.  It doesn't care if it is a
character or not.  I use this extensively to transfer binary data between
PIC's and the PC.

Hope this helps,

Norm

At 01:53 PM 3/19/98 PST, you wrote:
>Hi Guys
>
>Can someone tell me how I can receive a byte over a serial link.
>
>I need to have a user enter a number on the pc and then send it to the
>pic.  Is there such a thing as getint(), getbyte().....
>
>Thanks
>Charles
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