You shoul be set the parity bit equal in your pic and in the PC.

Proof you software (in the pc) for read the date from the PIC, you can
make this using a loop attach at the serial port.

for best undestanding i recommend to you the next url:

www.senet.com.au/~cpeacok

Francisco Armenta

> Saurabh Sinha wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I needed to establish communication between a PIC and a PC. I am
> sending bits serially at 9600 baud to Port-A. Someone told me that
> this is not going to work, and I should send ASCII characters to the
> PC as the PC stands ASCII characters. I don't understand this...could
> someone please explain or refer me to an URL...
>
> Thanks in advance for your reply.
>
> Regards,
>
> Saurabh
Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii;
 name="briones.vcf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Description: Card for Francisco Armenta
Content-Disposition: attachment;
 filename="briones.vcf"

Attachment converted: definition:briones.vcf (TEXT/CSOm) (0000E752)