5.5 is written in PASCAL. 16 bit technology written for dos. It has been patched
to death to work in windows. Some bugs are still being dealt with. Latest news is
that a new 32 bit version is in the works. Probably written in VB.
Rick

Francisco Ares wrote:

> I am also running MPLAB 5.5 and Hitech  C compiler, and have gone
> trhough the same problems that you pointed out.  The 5.5 version is a
> little bit buggy, also: when I set more than a couple of breakpoints,
> the program crashes. Seriously, I am thinking in getting back to 5.4 !!
>
> I can't wait to have MPLAB 5.6 ;-)
>
> Best regards to all PIC listers
> Francisco
>
> Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:
>
> >Has anyone come accross any compatiblity problems with the latest verison of
> >MPLAB (5.5)?  I installed it recently, and tried to rebuild some projects I
> >was working on and MPLAB told me my build tools were not installed
> >correctly.  After extensive head scratching, it seems that MPLAB5.5 refers
> >to the Hitech tools as "PICC Linker", PICC Compiler" and "PICC Assembler".
> >The previous version I was using (I think 5.4 but not aboslutely sure),
> >refered to them as "PIC-C Linker", "PIC-C Compiler" etc.  After manualy
> >editing the project files they built correctly.  I've not seen anything
> >mentioned so I wonder if this is unique to my system?
> >
> >Also, eveytime I use the ProMate through MPLAB, it whinges that I don't have
> >the latest firmware installed, although I have programmed it with the
> >version that comes with MPLAB 5.5, and I can't find any newer version.
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Mike
> >
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