> The rest is long and probably discouraging, but hang in there..
>

True, Spehro, so true...

> Note: without the last line's conditional the program will invoke the
dreaded
> Undefined Behavior very quickly... because string has but 20 bytes
allocated.

Ya, I was just trying to write the simplest thing possible to get off the
ground.  Thanks for the reminder to no overrun buffer allocations..

> sprintf(string1,"Temperature: %d F");

This sprintf() must be a Hitech thing - CCS doesn't like it.


> Also STRCAT() is not a C library function (but strcat() is..)

Yeah, I always turn off caps sensitivity, it seems silly to bother with it.
sTrCAt = STRcat = strcaT

> I suggest you get a good book on C, and a PC C compiler (an old Borland
one
> will
> do) with good watch windows and so on and play with it. It's too
frustrating
> trying to learn C with a microcontroller setup. IMHO. Your learning will
> increase with every mistake, so you want to make mistakes (and fix them)
as
> quickly as possible.

With a 16F873 and an In-Circuit Programming port, I can squirt bug-riddled
code into the micro just about as fast as I can write it!  I've got some
books on C, read them, and never did understand pointers yet.

I learned C with a PC compiler, but I'm trying to get this all to work in
the memory-starved PIC and the subset of C called CCS which apparently
leaves out all the useful functions.

This is all helping  - thanks a lot!



-- Lawrence

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