How to send long value over USART??

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HI
I'm working a project need to send long value numbers serialy.

Does any one now how can i sent long value over Usart ??
Let's say i whant to sent a number 1234.12 how can i do this?

putc() , fputc() send only character ,So how do i sent Long Value??
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Need to send From PIC micro to PIC micro.
Not PIC TO PC.
thanks
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[SherpaDoug]

If you just want to send a 16 bit long you can use make8() and make16() to break the long into bytes. A number like 1234.12 is a float which requires make32() to reconstruct.
Or you can use printf() and maybe gets() to send the number as a string.
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