>
>Hi folks,
>
>I4ve had some problems unzipping the file 
>"/pub/mchipsoft/mchipsoft/picapp/apnset02.zip" at ftp.sics.se.
>(double-zipped file math.zip is corrupted)
>Could anybody unzip it ??? I used the newest version (2.04g) of PKWARE's 
>pkunzip.exe for DOS. PKZIPFIX didn't work either. Perhaps this file should be 
>renewed! Others are OK.
>
>Does anybody already have some experience with the MPASM (by Byte Craft 
Limited 
>of Waterloo and MCHIP itself)??? I got MPASM___.ZIP from the MCHIP BBS.
>It seems to become the new enhenced general assembler for the PIC families or
>is it already destributed along with any HW-tools? I'm just working with
>the PICSTART-16B. There should also be a C-Compiler (MPC) soon! Am I right?
>Please give me some respond about it...

Yes there will be a C compiler out soon. I think it already is.. from BYTECRAFT.
There was a mail message earlier in this mail forum which had much better
detail about what was available.. But I did not save it sorry... Maybe
somone else will repost it?? (hint)

>
>By the way, for my research (MEMS) I designed a simple "Multi process Kernel"
>for the PIC 16C71. All my programms (3 to be exact) now base on it. The main
>part is an interrupt manager which branches to several processes (subroutines)
>and it supports a serial line (RS 232/485 - half or full duplex) by interrupt
>up to 19.6kB (8N1). A simple protocoll is suggested and only 7 file registers
>are used for its minimum running (CRCs and double FSRs are also available 
>(+4bytes)).
>The kernel exchanges serial data via two fileregisters and Ready/Send flags.
>Errors are also flagged. 
>The usage of this "MpK" is fast and easy: fill up the empty structure with your
>own code, data and initialization.
>
>Is there any interest for it ???

Yea! sounds like a good start for a lot of projects!! Microchip should use
code pieces like that for their app notes..

>
>I indent to send the code to the PIC code library at tom@takdsign.demon.co.uk! 
>
>
>Thanks 
>
>- Michael Kellenberger
>


                Thanks..
                        David Foringer (TRISYS, Inc.)