Thanks for all the input. I am pretty amazed how my email name offended so many people. Still, in the original question I did put my name at the end, and my hotmail address reveals most of it too. So let me introduce myself: It's Arjen Roelof Vellekoop I live in the Netherlands, and am currently involved in a small project with a PIC16F628A I got some really good suggestions: 1 Apparantly, modem messages are unique in their first character, that makes life really simple. 2 The suggestion of adding individual chars(values) to get a 'stamp' may be quite useful too. I am pretty familiar with assembler and ways to compare individual characters (Xoring, Anding and checking for Z-flag) The question may not have been put clearly: Is it possible to assign two pointers (in my case to strings to compare) in the 16F628. One pointer is possible via the FSR. Arjen Vellekoop _________________________________________________________________ Nieuw: Download nu MSN Messenger 7.0 http://messenger.msn.nl/ -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist