I had a look through the examples and could not find gets() used anywhere,
infact the only reference I can find to gets() is in the book????
If you have a look at GET_STRING() in the input.c file this uses the getc()
(ANSI standard) routine.

Jason



>Darren Logan wrote:
>> var = GETC works ok but not GETS().
>> Instead, GETS() seems to hang the PIC.
>
>It's gets(), surely?  If it is the ANSI C function, it is defined as
>using getc() until it receives an end of line marker.  Are you sending
>characters followed by a carriage return?
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