User input via serial port

[AJBelayer]

I am working on a special project for my vex robot but for this project to work I need to be able to accept input from a computer via the serial port (or other means but serial port seems easiest). Has anyone found a way to recive input from the serial port, I have tried using the stdio.h file as you would normally in c to get input from the keyboard but the stdio.h file included with mcc18 doesn't have that feature.

The other key that would help in solving this problem would be finding a copy of the "online test code" but from what I gather this has not been released to the general public.

Any help would be greatly appreiceated.

AJBelayer