When I said, "I used a little trick when doing this, just to make for less editing....but its a bit complicated to explain, and I'm tired" in my first post, I was referring to the type of structured programming that tgrugett was describing.

I do things a bit differently, but with the same results. I'm pretty sure that with my method I have streamlined it down to the fewest possible macros, and the fewest places to enter/change RS232.

Don't take this the wrong way, but I'm not prepared to give out all the work I spent hours on. But once you get into a bit, I'd be happy to compare our methods.

As for tgrugett, since I know we have worked on similar type of programming, and with similar systems, I'd be willing to compare methods right away if you are interested. My email should be in my profile.