Depends how many pins you have empty. As Jinx said use LED's. Do you have two free pins? If so build a simple program that when your communication is aborted a clock kicks in and displays the address on the two led's (one led is the clock and one is data). Make the pulses a second long or so as to be readble to a human. :) Aaron -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body