Have you tried another terminal program? I've had all kinds of troubles with Hyperterminal over the years and quit using it altogether some time ago. There are some good free terminal programs out there that work much better for embedded controller work, like TeraTerm Pro and Bray's Terminal. Best of all, they're free for the download... http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html http://bray.velenje.cx/avr/terminal/ Matt Pobursky Maximum Performance Systems On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 15:19:31 -0800, Dan Devine wrote: > Done, leading LF removed, order is FF,"Hello1",CR,LF,"Hello2", etc. > > no luck....still prints out like > > Hello1 > Hello2 > 84 (or whatever number) > Hello3 > > > -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body