did you look at their (Microchips) tutorial for 3.40 ?

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> From: kotay@AHWANEE.CS.DARTMOUTH.EDU
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> Sent: Friday, July 17, 1998 2:34 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      MPLAB Help Needed
>
> I know this has been covered before, but I haven't been
> developing PIC code since version 3.22 and now that I've
> "upgraded" to 3.40 I can't build a project.  I won't
> even mention the half hour spent trying to add an .asm
> file to the project (I finally had to download a .pdf
> file from Microchip's site to figure it out), or the
> fact that there was no MLASM.EXE file in the distribution
> directory (I copied MPASMWIN.EXE to MPASM.EXE and it
> seems to be assembling).  My current problem is that
> after the assemler has run I get a message saying that
> "MPLAB cannot find the .hex file" and the damn file is
> right in the project directory!  If anybody can help me
> out on this one, I'd appreciate it.
>
> And if anyone from Microchip is on this list, all I can
> say is that you took a piece of software that worked and
> made it a LOT harder to use.  No one wants to spend a
> few hours figuring out the quirks in your software.  I'm
> afraid to see what your new version 4 software will be
> like.
>
> Keith
>
> Keith D. Kotay
> Dartmouth Robotics Laboratory
> kotay@cs.dartmouth.edu
> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotay