>Using standard compare routines from the archive I can make the code
>work for positive values, but I am stuck comparing negative values
>against positive ones etc.

I guess I don't fully understand.  If you have a "flag byte" TEMP_MSB that
indicates whether you're positive or negative, aren't you making use of it?
Doesn't make sense that you can't compare a positive and a negative number
differential.

; assume temp differential is 4 degrees for the sake of argument
; and that TEMP_MSB=0xFF (negative value)
movlw 0x02  ; which is really -2 if TEMP_MSB==0xFF
movwf byte_1
movlw 0x02  ; initial reading to compare against
movwf byte_2

incf TEMP_MSB, 0  ; overflow it to 0x00 (maybe)
btfss STATUS, Z  ; if temp was negative, Z=1
goto $+3
comf byte_1, 1
incf byte_1, 1  ; negate byte if negative

movf byte_1, 0  ; compare bytes
subwf byte_2, 0
; now W holds the differential, perform standard C, Z comparisons
; to determine MAX value, etc.

Is this not what you're doing?  Maybe I'm missing your point.

--Andrew
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