Thank you Jose and Quentin for your advice.  I will try these code this
weekend to see if they works!
Thomas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Quentin" <qsc@ICON.CO.ZA>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: Sending a whole string to a LCD?


> Yes, Jose. You are correct. :)
>
> For Thomas, I would add:
>
>  DT    "HELLO",0
>
>  is equivalent to
>
>  RETLW    'H'
>  RETLW    'E'
>  RETLW    'L'
>  RETLW    'L'
>  RETLW    'O'
>  RETLW    0
>
> You get each character using table lookup (Microchip app notes and
> piclist.com for examples), send it to the LCD (also app notes and
> piclist.com), get the next one and so on until you get the RETLW 0. Then
> stop.
>
> Quentin
>
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