On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Olin Lathrop wrote:

> > I need to convert 16 bit binary to 4 BCD digits.  I searched the archives
> > and thought I had found just the right thing, so I more-or-less just
> pasted
> > it into my 16C877 code.  However, MPASM gives error messages on the lines
> > with the ds and $ directives.   I can't find any references to the $
> (except
> > where it returns the PCL) in the MPASM user's guide.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > NumH:   ds      1
> > NumL:   ds      1
> > TenK:   ds      1
> >
> > ...
> >
> >         addlw   $E2
>
> What stone tablet did you find this chiseled on!?  I vaguely remember
> stories of the Ancient Ones that used to say "DS" to reserve storage and "$"
> to denote hexadecimal.

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