I have been looking at the code on the piclist website for doing bin to hex
ASCII conversion, and I'm sure there is a simpler way. I have seen some
cunning code originally done for use on an 8080 or z80, and I was sure it
was in the Scelbi 8080 cookbook that I have, but I cannot find it in there.

It used the DC flag in a an extremely cunning way to detect the point at
which you go from 9 to A in the sequence by using the DAA instruction, and
used only about 5 or 6 8080 instructions without a single branch. I would
like to try and convert it to a pic although the lack of a DAA instruction
may not make this practical.

Can anyone else remember the code segment I am talking about? It may have
been in a z80 cookbook, or it could have been in a piece of Intel source
code for the development system bios. It always looked such a nice piece of
code that makes the common comparing to ASCII characters and doing jumps
look extremely clumsy.

I would appreciate getting hold of a copy of it if anyone has it.

Thanks.

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