> Unbelievable!!! I tried the USB-to-Serial converter, now > everything is > working fine! Thanks for the help Wouter and everyone else > who took their > time to answer my posts. Interesting. The problem as far as I found out was that a 'send' call never terminated. And I did not use hardware flow control. I guess the serial port software has some problem. Good to know. Wouter van Ooijen -- ------------------------------------------- Van Ooijen Technische Informatica: www.voti.nl consultancy, development, PICmicro products -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads