I want to establish serial communication between 89c51 and PC. At PC side,I am using MSComm control in VB6.

I want to send data such as 234 in a byte format and not sequntially as 2,3,4.

When instruction such as:
MSComm1.Output="234" or
MSComm1.Output=out(out is a variable defined as byte array & out="234")
is used, data is sent in the order 2,3,4.

questions:
1)What should i do to send 234 as 8 bit data?

2)The data sent or received by UC is in HEX format. Keeping this in mind, which of the InputMode property(comInputModeText or comInputModeBinary)should be chosen ?

3)If UC sends data 234 as 8 bit data, what will be the output of instruction:
Text1.Text =MSComm1.Input ?
(ASCII character of '234' or '234')