On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:41:55 -0700, Tim Webb <tim_webb@AGILENT.COM>
wrote:

>why am I getting these errors?
>
>Error[108]   C:\PROGRA~1\MPLAB\ET53965\LCD2.ASM 27 : Illegal character =
(,)
>Error[108]   C:\PROGRA~1\MPLAB\ET53965\LCD2.ASM 28 : Illegal character =
(,)
>Error[108]   C:\PROGRA~1\MPLAB\ET53965\LCD2.ASM 29 : Illegal character =
(,)
>Error[128]   C:\PROGRA~1\MPLAB\ET53965\LCD2.ASM 66 : Missing argument(s)
>Error[128]   C:\PROGRA~1\MPLAB\ET53965\LCD2.ASM 67 : Missing argument(s)
>Error[128]   C:\PROGRA~1\MPLAB\ET53965\LCD2.ASM 98 : Missing argument(s)
>Error[128]   C:\PROGRA~1\MPLAB\ET53965\LCD2.ASM 110 : Missing =
argument(s)
>Error[128]   C:\PROGRA~1\MPLAB\ET53965\LCD2.ASM 117 : Missing =
argument(s)
>Error[128]   C:\PROGRA~1\MPLAB\ET53965\LCD2.ASM 119 : Missing =
argument(s)
>
>

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>
>rw      equ     PORTA,0
>rs      equ     PORTA,1
>cs      equ     PORTA,2
>

You need to use '#define' to do a text substitution for the port name
and bit number. 'equ' is used to assign a single numeric value to a
mnemonic and can't handle two values as you're trying to do here. I
believe that the rest of the errors are caused by these errors.

Regards, Bob

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