Just a little fixer-upper in the previous post. The note at the top says it's to receive 10 characters, but in fact the program you see is set to receive 20. I was testing the LCD, not the receive function The program as it is now is back to the original 10 characters in a 6 + 4 format. In case you were wondering -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.