Receiving text through RS232 with hyper terminal

[Spiffy]

HI!

I have a problem I want to send a text file or the content of the text file through RS232 so my PIC can get the data and store it in my memory the memory part is OK its the receiving part that I have no idea how to go about it can someone please HELP!!

Thanx

[rwyoung]

Are you asking for help with Hyperterminal. with receiving serial data on a PIC or both?

Hyperterminal has a menu option Transfer | Send File and Transfer | Send Text File.

The Send File option supports Xmodem, Ymodem, Zmodem, etc. Send Text File streams the conents of an ASCII file out the serial port with no CRC or other checking (except for what is enabled in the com port setup).

To receive a file on the PIC, you need to configure the UART (hardware or software, hardware is prefered) and for streaming things you should set up the INT_RDA interrupt. There is a pretty good piece of sample code in the PICC\Examples subdirectory. Look at the compiler's help file for INT_RDA and you will eventually find the file name for the example files.

Enough to get your started?
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