Make sure your interrupt register is set up correctly.  When I use the async
stimulus I choose the bit to 'toggle' rather than just to set the bit to one
state e.g. low.  Try this, it works with me (I use C though, not assembler)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lewis H. Cobb [SMTP:cobb@ZEUS.EE.UNB.CA]
> Sent: Friday, May 29, 1998 4:44 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Question On Simulator
>
> Hello all -
>
> I have downloaded the simulator / MPLAB and have been trashing my way
> through it over the past few days.  I would like to simulate the software
> for a "keystroke on port b<7:4> waking the processor and then executing
> some code"
>
> Can this be done with the simulator?  I have the code written and it seems
> to flow properly up to the point of executing the "sleep" instruction (the
> general interrupt enable is active so I should get a vector to 0004 when
> the pin is brought low on port b)
>
> I went into the async. stimulus and configured one of the simuli for port
> b7 and low when activated.
>
> When I try it out it doesn't seem to do diddly - i.e. the processor does
> not vector to 0004 - where I have a breakpoint set shortly thereafter...
>
> Perhaps I am missing something simple here - it could be as I have only
> been working with the MPLAB system for a very short time.  I've set up the
> high nibble on port B as an input, and when I see the value in the
> "window"
> for viewing registers, it's all 0s - I have the pull ups enabled as
> well...
>
> Thanks for any help people can provide
>
> Lewis
> cobb@zeus.ee.unb.ca