At 12:57 PM 8/13/02 -0700, Brendan wrote:
>Ok, that's what confused me.  6 is 110 in binary.  I guess that was
>just a typo.

Oops!

>Thx alot.  When I have PIC code for this, I will post it. (I'm just
>afraid of the 32*8 multiply. I'll be using a code generator for that
>one :o)

How many bytes you use depends on how long you want the run length and the
resolution to be. Perhaps a 2-byte unsigned integer would be enough.

Multiplying by 6 is fairly easy: 6D = 110B (as you noted). So just shift k
left once and twice and add the two together to carry out the multiply by 6.

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