>> Obviously the TRIS command is what is being complained about, and I
>> realize that Microchip says that we should not utilize this command,
>
>  That's in much the same vein as Micro$oft saying you shouldn't use
>Linux!


Not really - we depend utterly on Microchip for TRIS continuing to work -
THEY do it in their hardware. True, they say that it may not work in future
and one of these days legacy code may not work on a new MChip cpu, but I
suspect it's never actually going to happen. I imagine they saw its removal
as a possible way to squeeze a little more out of the silicon long ago but
that developments have bypassed the usefulness to them of such a minor
change. If so they should take the warning out of newer data sheets (if it's
actually still there :-)).

RM.