I'll give you that the first debugging step should have been to revert to the last known good solution - though that's also worth reminding people. But you're telling me that hyperterminal mangling 0D0A pairs isn't useful information (it's the sort of thing I'd always check for, but then I do a lot of moving between Windows and Unix domains where such issues are normal, and I'd kind of expect HT to do that)? The thing is, you seem to be suggesting that there is no useful information in that webpage, when your own experience of people asking you FAQs should suggest it's anything but - not everybody knows the stuff you consider to be "basics". On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Olin Lathrop w= rote: > Chris McSweeny wrote: >> I'm loving all the smugness on this thread. Presumably nobody on here >> has ever made a silly mistake? > > We've probably all made dumb mistakes, but the difference is we realized = it > was due to our own stupidity and didn't write up a web page making it sou= nd > like a legitimate gotcha. =A0This software guy isn't a moron for making a > mistake or just forgetting a checksum. =A0He's a moron because he tried t= o get > away with something stupid, used poor debugging strategies, wasted 3 days= as > a result, and still thinks he ran into a gotcha worth warning others abou= t. > > > ******************************************************************** > Embed Inc, Littleton Massachusetts, http://www.embedinc.com/products > (978) 742-9014. =A0Gold level PIC consultants since 2000. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .