Tzimourakas Elias wrote: > I am a begginer and i want to know how can i communicate with a PIC from COM > or LPT ports. I created a PIC programmer, i can load the program, i played with > the pins and with leds and now i want to recieve a number from my pc and do > something with that. Specifically i want to send 0 or 1 to a specific pin of the port. > I tried the PICLIST/FAQ but i am little confused. > Please be analytic. There are quite a number of sample communications programs, to be found in: http://www.piclist.com/techref/microchip/routines.htm both for Asm and C. Most of these contain comments about how and why. Did you have a look at these? What confuses you? Regards, Rob. BTW: why the [EE] tag and not [PIC]? -- Rob Hamerling, Vianen, NL phone +31-347-322822 homepage: http://www.robh.nl/ -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads