Joe,


As you would expect of the PRINT command, it adds a carriage return/line
feed (or at least one of these) to the end of a line by default.
Add a terminating ";" to stop this.



regards




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-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Hamilton <joeh100@CROSSWINDS.NET>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thursday, 17 February 2000 18:35
Subject: rs232 in qbasic


>I am trying to transmit data to a pic, from my computer.  I am having
>terrible results with this though.  I believe my pic program works???
>Anyway I looked at the data coming from my comm port on my scope and I
don't
>recognize the format.  It isn't the 8-N-1 format that I am shooting for.
>How do I send a single number in qbasic as the 8-N-1 format.
>
>This is what I have tried, when I look at it on my scope I get like a 14
bit
>word...Help.
>
>10    OPEN "COM1: 1200, N, 8, 1, RS, DS" AS #2
>20    A% = 1
>30    PRINT #2, A%
>
>Thanks,
>
>Joe
>