Hi.
Another way of handling this (sending multiple bytes/characters
out on the UART line), is to implement a FIFO buffer where
the characters to be sent are written, and a UART TX-ISR that
are fetching from the FIFO (as long as it isn't empty) and
writing them to the UART TXREG. Thay way, your main code
doesn't have to wait until your FIFO buffer is full. Most of the time,
the FIFO can be sizes so it never will be full.

For an example (not the easiest to read, but works out-of-the-box)
is Olins UART routines found on www.embedinc.com/pic. The UART
routines are "embeded" into the include files, so you have to
look araound a bit...

Regards,
Jan-Erik.

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