Hello Josh.

> Thank you Neil. Just so I'm sure I understand, because this is a
> compiler directive, it results in code that is only programmed and not
> executed by the PIC?

  No.  You can if you wish define code using the DW directive and have
the PIC execute it.  You would have to supply data values corresponding
to compiled instructions of course, performing assembly separately.

  You might for example take a hex dump of some code and edit out a part
of it, chop it up into values and insert these into DW statements (very
easy to do with a macro editor) and put them into another assembly file,
either as part or the whole file.

  Not sure why, but...
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  Cheers,
        Paul B.