Well i've done some searching and havent quite come up with what id like to do... That is I have a value in hex and i want to transmit it to a console but display it in decimal because sometimes you get control characters etc and then you don't see what you have unless you capture the data. Did that make sense? example 0x32 = 50 and transmit a byte as "50", so need to convert it over and also let it splill into another byte if necessary. 0xFF = 02 55 so it would be transmitted as 02 the 55. I have everything in place for transmitting so thats not an issue. Just need to convert and drop into a temp memory location. thanks everyone __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist