strange serial out results

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Has anyone ever seen this one.

I am sending data out serially from from data formatted previously
from a scratch pad string input. See below:

SERIN 1, 240, 20000, NODATA, [noparse][[/noparse]SPSTR 54]

SERSTRING VAR BYTE(15)
SERSTRING(0) = "2'
SERSTRING(1) = "0"
SERSTRING(2) = "1"
SERSTRING(3) = $89
SERSTRING(4) = $01
GET 21, SERSTRING(5)
GET 22, SERSTRING(6)
GET 12, SERSTRING(7)
GET 13, SERSTRING(8)
GET 27, SERSTRING(9)
GET 28, SERSTRING(10)
GET 41, SERSTRING(11)
GET 42, SERSTRING(12)
GET 51, SERSTRING(13)
GET 46, SERSTRING(14)

SEROUT 5\6, 16624, [noparse][[/noparse]STR SERSTRING\17]

Two problems:

1) If [noparse][[/noparse]STR SERSTRING\17] is shorter than 17 the last bits get
clipped off.

The end of the string has a strange unknown character added at the
end, a DEC 15 (hex0F).

2) Later on in the program I wanted to add some more varriables and
the end of the string gets the new variable values. See below:

V1 VAR BYTE
V2 VAR BYTE
V3 VAR BYTE
V4 VAR BYTE

V1 = SERSTRING(5)
V2 = SERSTRING(6)
V3 = SERSTRING(7)
V4 = SERSTRING(8)

The v1-4 values were added to the SERSTRING the second pass through
the program.


Any Ideas??????

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>SERSTRING VAR BYTE(15)
>...
>SEROUT 5\6, 16624, [noparse][[/noparse]STR SERSTRING\17]

It is sending 17 bytes, but the variable array contains only 15. The
last two bytes sent will be whatever happens to be in memory after
the array.

-- Tracy