Picsters
I've read the past posts on RS232 in the last couple of weeks. Steve
Thackery's email (Start and stop bits) and Comlite32 have cleared up a
lot of mysteries about RS232 (Finally decided to try and master it).
Also some examples on the Net helped.

Here come the Q's though:
My PIC is going to read 3 bytes of data which is looped out of the PC
with a 105 millisecs (according to Comlite32 and I am not even sure if
it is millisecs) delay between the 3 bytes. The first byte is just a set
ASCII character to tell the PIC the next two bytes are data. The PIC
then uses this data and return to read the serial line again.
As the PIC can start checking at anytime in the data stream, I would
like to know if anybody know a good way to synchronize with the data
stream?

I don't like the idea of checking for a long delay, so obviously I must
check for the first byte (ASCII character). To do that, I must first
find the start bit and then check if the byte is the ASCII. Any good
ideas on how to do that?

I can not modify the data stream or talk back to the PC.

Maybe I am missing the obvious here so any help will be appreciated.

Quentin