At 10:04 PM 3/16/97 -0600, you wrote:
>        First let me say " THANK YOU " to all that have helped me in the
past.
>        I'm in the middle of making a routine that reads a resistor value and
>wanted to use more than 8 bits for the value. Is there a way to use 2
>registers to make a 16 bit variable ?? Can the variable be sent via RS232
>as decimal ?? At this point in time I have the routine working great except
>that I would like to use bigger values.

Assembly, I presume.  The C compilers all handle this built-in.

You have to use two registers, and do all the carry handling in software.
The PIC doesn't know anything more than 8 bits and a carry.

What functions do you need?  Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, print as
decimal or hex?

Andy

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