At 05:49 PM 12/21/2003 -0600, Matt Pobursky wrote: >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. Hear Hear! I have used a wyse-50, which has a convenient hex dump feature. Currently, I use a dec flat panel terminal. Terminal emulators suck. >> no luck....still prints out like >> >> Hello1 >> Hello2 >> 84 (or whatever number) >> Hello3 Your CR and LF are being ignored. It may be that the device in question needs delays between the chars. This is typical of 8051 driven devices, and frequently not documented. Try a 1mS delay, and see what happens. It's interesting that the printable chars ARE making it through. Check stop bit definitions also. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body