Thanks Raquel for your quick response. I thought that was the problem but could not find any documentation.

One thing that I did notice was very little code samples for Picbasic and how to get around the initial stages of talking to the LCD at 19,200. I've got some code that works very well with ...

Ihave an lk162-12 attached to an 16f877 using the serial port. All is well sending code to the LCD using pin 3 and 5v through the rs232 for power to the LCD. I have not connected pin 2 to send data from the LCD during the early testing. I just started using pin 2 to test the keypad functions and ...