Thanks for all the help, Raquel
I appreciate it, a lot.

That works great. Thank you! This makes me wonder what exactly was wrong earlier. Was it the baud rate or because I didn't close the TTL gaps ? Would it work now if I desoldered the TTL gaps ? I'd like to know for sure to be ready for my next project. Please advise ! P.S. I also gave printf() anothe...

Man you're good! Thanks a lot. It has finally worked! I used your code (please see the code after modification for PIC18F458 below) and it worked with 4Mhz and baud=19200. However, when I use 1Mhz and 2400baud, the meaningless characters came back. CCS compiler says "Baud rate out of range"...

While trying RS232, i used baud 9600 and set the jumpers accordingly (J1,2,4 out, J3 in). It didn't work. The code #use rs232(baud=2400, xmit=PIN_C6, rcv = PIN_C7) was my last attempt (the baud was the only thing I could change, so I just tried different rates in desperation). Thanks, Tom Hi roo, Th...

Hi guys, I am a newbie, so please bear with me. I am trying to connect PIC18F458 to the LCD2041 (rev.1.5). I used the code below (CCS C complier) and it didn't work: the LCD keeps displaying a bunch of meaningless characters. Then I found out since I only have the bare PIC, I can't directly use RS23...