I need a quick hand, and I don't have my tools handy. Can you help? I need to kick-start the UART in a PC to make it start talking. The whole app is interrupt-driven, so either I need a way to force a call to my ISR with the appropriate flag bits set in the UART status register, or some other idea. How about URL? I'm off yahoo already. Thanks. Andy ================================================================== Andy Kunz Life is what we do to prepare for Eternity ------------------------------------------------------------------ andy@rc-hydros.com http://www.rc-hydros.com - Race Boats andy@montanadesign.com http://www.montanadesign.com - Electronics ==================================================================