Sharing pin C7 &C6 of PIC16F877a. Help me...

[xanseviera]

I'm currently doing my project which interfaces with RS232 at pin C7 & C6 in PIC16F877.
At the the same time, pin C0 - C7 also occupied with 7 segment connection.
When I run the project, 7segments' pin that connected wit C7 and C6 aren't lighten up.
I'm using hexadeximal for the programming of 7 segments because it ease me to make 7 segment count.
Since Pin C6 & C7 are functioned as transmit & receive data’s pin.
is it possible for me to share pin C6 & C7 of PIC for both 7 segments and RS232?
How can I solve this problem?

TQ

 

[X4ROY]

well i just left out c6 and c7 and went for two pins from other ports .... its like you have a total of 7 leds to take care of in ur 7 segment take 4-5 from port c and the rest from port d ... get ur respective codes for various numbers like for 3 it may be like this
PORTD = 0b10111000
PORTC = 0b00110000