Alright, alright....
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I spent some time with this now.Ê I set the processor to 16C73A
I tried the dt stuff.Ê That sure enough generates table enties.
ent1 dt "123"
assembles to 
retlw 0x31
retlw 0x32
retlw 0x33
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string db A'1',A'2',A'3',0x00
assembles to
0x31,0x32,0x33,0x00
bytes in ascending memory.
No useless retlw opcode bytes shoved between them as with dt.
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DONE!

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas C. Sefranek [mailto:tcs@CMCORP.COM]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 11:17 AM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Ascii constants


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Michael Rigby-Jones wrote: 


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Well, I have to admitt I've just had a fiddle and it took quite a while
to get a simple prog to compile with a constant ASCII string.Ê But I did
it. 


testÊÊÊ dtÊÊÊÊÊ "This is a load of ascii",0x00 


Works just fine for me.Ê The assembler choked when I tried to use db.Ê
This is the beauty of C, I never get this kind of problems (although
plenty of others...) 


Mike

YES!Ê It works! 

!!! I just finished re-writing my code to use the return characters in
the string.!!! 
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