To Anyone,
        After many hours of fingering over my code in search of a couple
of bugs, I have finished a working version of an IR remote control
decoder!  The only impediment in my path to complete success is a minute
hardware problem.  I  am using a PIC16C84 to receive IR commands from a
Kenwood remote.  If the PIC receives the correct command it will start,
stop or pause a SONY portable CD player.  The CD player is the run of the
mill portable player, which requires the user to depress a button to
begin playing the CD, etc.  I want to use the remaining pins on the PIC
to toggle these switches.  I tried to pull the terminal from the switch
to ground using the PIC, but got no response.  I assume that there is too
much internal resistance through the PIC's PORTB pins to ground for the
switch to activate.  Might this be correct?  I thought about using a FET
with teh gate connected to the PIC and the high side of the CD player's
swithc connected to the source and the low side connected to drain
(ground).  Does anyone have any alternative suggestions that are low
power and low component number?

Aaron Hickman