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You wrote
>I'm looking for a routine that I can plug into my code that will
>provide a delay of around three seconds, although a universal timing
>routine would be nice where I could plug in a number between 1 and
255 and get some kind of delay out of it.  I don't need to be doing
>anything during the time delay so it doesn't have to be interrupt
>driven.

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A long period timer uses one ram location and TMR0
can be expanded for longer times by using two locations three seconds is easy
all the text assumes you are using a 4.00mHz osc 1US instruction time See
attached TIMER.ASM

Cheers Steve.....

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section of initalisation code
        BANK1                   ; REGISTER SET 1
        MOVLW   B'00000111'     ; RTCC PRESCALER /256
        MOVWF   OPTION_REG      ; 256 US PER COUNT
        BANK0                   ; RESET REGISTER BANK
long time timer w should contain the ammount 64mS periods to be counted
when entering this timer
LONG    
        CLRF    TMR0    ; CLEAR TO START
        MOVWF   GP1     ; TEMP COUNT REG
LONG2   BTFSC   TMR0,7  ; 256 * 256 US = 64 MS@ 4.00 mhz
        GOTO    JMP1    
        GOTO    LONG2   ;LOOP UNTIL BIT SET
JMP1    CLRF    TMR0    ; YES SO CLR RTCC
        DECFSZ  GP1,1   ; DECREASE TIL ZERO
        GOTO    LONG2   ; ROUND THE LOOP
        RETLW   0       ; RETURN FROM SUB