Thanks for the reply.  This, along with the previous
reply, make more sense to me no.  Should have seen
that one ...  ;)

Oh, and you were correct about what I was _trying_ to
do.

Thanks again,

ATM

--- Olin Lathrop <olin_piclist@EMBEDINC.COM> wrote:
> I think you were trying to create the variable
> DISPNUM, then later use its
> value to access a specific bit.  The BSF and BCF
> instructions only work on
> fixed bit numbers.  The bit number is coded into the
> instruction.  There is
> no single instruction like BSF to access a bit
> selected at run time.  You
> have to do that by creating a mask for the bit and
> using AND, OR, or XOR,
> depending on what you want to do.
>
>
>
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