Stephen Webb wrote: >I understand the desire to clean up the code a bit, but correctness always >wins out over elegance. Thanks for your response. I agree with you, and so I was intending to retain the extra loop unless I received definite confirmation that it is now redundant. However, as you'll see from my later posting, I now have this from Microchip, so I will take the opportunity to remove the "BTFSS / GOTO" combinations. Regards. -- Ian Chapman Chapmip Technology, UK -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.