I have only used RS232 adapters to talk TX/RX with no hardware flow control to a PIC or another project, never used any of the control lines.  I can't address whether this would produce issues or not.  

No issues with PICstart Plus. 

-- Lawrence Lile, P.E.
Electrical and Electronic Solutions
Project Solutions Companies
www.projsolco.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Spehro Pefhany [mailto:speff@interlog.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 11:53 AM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: RE: [OT] Notebooks
> 
> At 11:08 AM 9/27/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >I have started to the USB serial port adapters on all my newer computers,
> >and they have worked well.  You can find them all over the place  - I got
> >one at Circuit City and the other at Radio Shark.
> 
> Lawrence/Dave:-
> 
> Could you mention a few items that you've used them with that might
> be of interest to people here?
> 
> I assume they worked okay on a Picstart+, but what else?
> 
> Do they deal with the h/w handshaking lines?
> 
> How about using them for communication with a target system that you've
> programmed yourself?
> 
> I'm looking at some of the new computers that have 60-80G HDD and
> DVD writers for very reasonable prices.. the main compromise is the
> screen size.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..."            "The Journey is the
> reward"
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> 
> 
> 
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