hi all, I've been trying to send a prefixed data to my 8051 TXD vt the following command: ORG 000H LJMP SETUP ORG 003H ;External Interrupt 0 CLR P3.6 LCALL EXT_INTERRUPT RETI ORG 00BH ;Timer Interrupt 0 LJMP TIMER_INT ORG 023H ;serial interrupt LCALL SERIAL_INT RETI CSEG AT 0100H KEY: DB "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" NUM: DB "0123456789" TXT: DB "HELLO WORLD]" SERIAL_INT: JNB RI,TRANS ;jump to transmit section if serial interrupt is by transmission CLR EX0 ;disable External Interrupt 0 CLR ET0 ;disable Timer Interrupt 0 MOV A,SBUF ;accumulator acts as temp storage for received character, A stands for accumulator CLR RI ;clear the serial interrupt flag CJNE R2,#0,CHECK_END ;check for start of pager message header else check for message trailer CJNE A,#'@',SKIP ;skip message if it is not a correct header INC R2 ;increment counter to 1 MOV DPTR,#S_MSG ;load data pointer to S_MSG's address MOV R0,DPL ;load address of S_MSG to R3 TRANS: MOV DPTR,#TXT ;load data pointer to TXT's address MOV R0,DPL LJMP SEND_TO_TXD CLR TI RET SEND_TO_TXD: CLR TI MOV SBUF,@R0 ;TESTING: LOAD THE FIRST CHAR OF TXT INC R0 JNB TI,$ CJNE @R0,#']',SEND_TO_TXD -------------------------------------------- the results shown on my hyperterminal kept pointing to data defined in the followings: ------------------------------------ ;Device 1 Memory Contents ;------------------------ D1ADDED: DS 1 D1ACT: DS 1 D1NAME: DS 5 D1PASS: DS 5 D1PORT: DS 1 D1STATE: DS 1 D1HOUR_OFF: DS 1 D1MIN_OFF: DS 1 D1HOUR_ON: DS 1 D1MIN_ON: DS 1 . . . . . ;Device 5 Memory Contents ;------------------------ D5ADDED: DS 1 . . . .;Default Device 1 Memory Contents ;-------------------------------- MOV DPTR,#D1ADDED MOV R0,DPL MOV @R0,#'Y' MOV DPTR,#D1ACT MOV R0,DPL MOV @R0,#'Y' MOV DPTR,#D1NAME MOV R0,DPL MOV @R0,#'O' INC R0 MOV @R0,#'V' INC R0 MOV @R0,#'E' INC R0 MOV @R0,#'N' INC R0 MOV @R0,#'1' MOV DPTR,#D1PASS MOV R0,DPL MOV @R0,#'B' INC R0 MOV @R0,#'B' INC R0 MOV @R0,#'B' INC R0 MOV @R0,#'B' INC R0 MOV @R0,#'B' . . . . +++++++++display on hyperterminal YYOVEN1BBBBB1N YYBULB2BBBBB..... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ My question is, how do i transfer the message 'Hello World' (defined by TXT)to SBUF?