[PD] comport

[MvH]

Hello, I'm playing with the comport object, I'm reading data that is 
send by a PIC on ttyS1

I've been troubleshooting this since the beginning: I had strange 
characters showing up in minicom,
and unregular sequences of numbers (with some repetition but never 
exactly the same) in PD.
after double checking the output on the windows program hypterterm I 
found that I in fact DID print the message
'hello world' from the pic. I found that I had to use "minicom -l" for 
pass-trough of  charachters, either that,
or modify my program to print characters in hex format ( I used ascii on 
the pic side as well) like 0x48 for a 'hello world' . The comport object 
in pd also expects characters in hex format. Is there a way to enable 
similar pass-trough for certain characters in the comport object? just 
printing ascii chars on the pic side is way more comfortable, and I'll 
have to do a "decimal to ascii" patch as well ( since the comport object 
in turn converts what I send in hex to decimal?) it would even be nicer 
if there would be a way to directly capture in ascci.

any hints on this?

bye!

Matthijs.