Alice wrote:
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>hmm, good thought.  Now is there a nice way to terminate all
>those lines?  i dug out some 10k sip resistors, but of course
>the 40-odd pin connector on the mchip project board is not
>set up to plug them in directly, and i have to be careful
>with port b because of b3, b6,and b7..
>Is there an easy way to terminate all the loose lines without
>doing something to the project board i will regret later when
>it comes time to tear it out?

sip socket with sip R in the socket.
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>
>      list    p=16F877
>        __CONFIG   _CP_OFF & _WDT_OFF &  _RC_OSC
>;&_LVE_OFF<--hates this
>        include "P16F877.INC"
>beep_pin        equ     3
>;-----------------------------------------
>        nop                                             ;for use by ide
>        ORG     0               ;Reset Vector
>         ORG     4               ;Interrupt
>        bsf     STATUS,RP0
>        clrf    PORTC           ;portc set output
>        movlw   b'00000001'
>        movwf   PORTA
>        movlw   B'00000110';.6--magic number
>        movwf   ADCON1  ;???    ;TURN OFF ADC
>        bcf     STATUS,RP0
>        CLRF    PORTA
>        movlw   b'00001000'
>        movwf   porta   ;no beep here
>

Am I missing something here, or is this code supposed to be
located inside the ISR space? [I suppose no interrupts?]
Also, what did you do with ADCON0? [I suppose it doesn't
matter here].

I realize there are POR values in all the regs, but I always
like to initialize critical regs myself anyway [option, interrupt,
A/D, etc] - lots easier to modify them to expand the code later,
and also you don't have to remember what they POR to.

Also, is this all there is? Never tried a program that just
falls off the end of the PIC, usually put in an infinite loop
at end.

L1      goto    L1