Hello,

I need to simulate a 360 bit serial data stream on RB0 on my 16F84, so I
wrote a Visual C++ program which would produce my .sti file for me. It
produces a file with 360 lines of the format specified in the MPSIM help
file:

CYCLE    <TAB>    RB0
[ElapsedCycle]<TAB>[Pin status] ... etc.

The text file looked ok when I opened it in MPLAB (I didn't look very
closely :-), so I tried to use it. Next thing, "Invalid Page Fault"
appeared, MPLAB closed,  followed very shortly after by KERNEL32. After a PC
reset, I tried again, and the same thing happened. I looked at the file
again and discovered that Visual C++ (obviously not my code you understand
;-) had put an 'X' at the end of the file. When I removed the 'X' and went
to try again, the Debug > Simulator Stimulus option was greyed out.

My questions are:

a) Was it the 'X' at the end of the file which caused MPLAB (...and my PC)
to bomb? or was I asking too much for it to simulate (the last simulator
cycle (number 360) in the file was 33950 ).

b) How do I re-enable the Debug > Simulator Stimulus option again? (I've got
the development mode set to MPSIM, and I can step through the code)

TIA for any help you boys and girls can offer me.

Steve