It's doing PRECISELY what you told it to do, the problem is you told
it the wrong thing.
  The REAL problem is that YOU'RE trying to put more than one character
in a command that specifically states single chars!  Read the MPASM
user's guide in help, chapter 5 directives for DB and look at the
example.  Look at the example.  db 't', 0x0f, 'e', 0x0f, 's', 0x0f, 't',
'\n'.  Do you notice that every byte is separated?  And that when you
look around in that help, there are several other related commands like
DATA that do make strings?  Can't blame the assembler when you just
haven't passed the RTFM test yet..
Alan


"Thomas C. Sefranek" wrote:
>
> Message[303]: Program word too large.  Truncated to core size. (4420)
> Message[303]: Program word too large.  Truncated to core size. (6F00)
> 0005 0420 2F00      00078 Init_Done       DB      "D o",0
>
> Notice it cast the white space into an ASCII space (0x20)
> so no magic in spaces.
> > Those define SINGLE bytes
> > Sequences or Strings of bytes are delimited by double quotes.
>
> The real problem is the assembler trying to pack 2 characters into a
> word!