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Help!

I finally got my first board, cable, and software for the 6811 together, and I
have a number of questions for those of you who are wiser and more experienced
than I.

First,  Sometimes, when I'm downloading to the miniboard, the transmission just
stops.  The bootloader code goes just fine, but in the middle of downloading
My code (hexmon40.s19),  I get a few . . ., and it just hangs.

   I have the Download Switch set to the right (away from the 6811), and I 
   Do hit the reset switch before I download.

   Why does this happen?

Second.  After I have successfully downloaded the code,  I don't know how
to run it.  The board is left running EEBOOT, and if I run Procomm, I can
talk to the board.  All I can do is tell it to reset by sending "S", because
the rest of the commands require binary data and I don't know hos to send
non-asciii from procomm, but the board DOES respond.
   I've tried every combination of download switch, IRQ, and RESET possible,
but I can't seem to get hexmon to run.  What an I doing wrong?  I'm taking a 
great leap of faith and presuming the board and chip are both working properly
and the problem is operator error.

Third.  I tried to compile HEXMON40.C using Microsoft QuickC, and found that
I don't have Comm.h.  I checked the master diskettes, and the file isn't
there.  Am I missing a file?  if not, what is the work-around to this problem?
I'm marginally capable of programming in C, but just barely.  any help  would
be greatly appreciated.


Thanks in advance for the help.

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