yes, you are right , fix the 52 also a good solution too, what i mean was to get a pc terminal ready and after that deal with 52 , but if his project need both 52 and a user-defined pc program he still need to face that problem and for me to setup a pc com port via vb is much easyer than 52's uart .
anywhay lats hope Shahzad Aslam fix his problem already
Chris Chang