Sean,

I am fairly comfortable with hex and I guess the only reason I'm using hex
is because it's less typing :)

I have changed the code many times since last night trying to get it to
work.  One of my trials was changing portb to 0xff (b'11111111') to
initially show that portb was actually working.  Granted it would have only
been a slight flash and probably not even long enough to see the port go
from low to high.  In changing my code I forgot to change a lot of my
comments and I apologize if it is confusing.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Sincerely,
Scott Pierce

At 10:39 AM 8/26/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>Scott,
>
>I am pretty much a newbie myself and not offended by the term either. I
>was just about to reply when I saw Tony's reply come through.
>
>I don't know about you, but I find HEX simply confusing. Most
>unnatural! :-)
>
>Instead of;
>
>>start   movlw   0x00
>
>have you considered;
>
>start   movlw   b'00000000'
>tris   porta
>tris   portb
>
>Also, Tony missed this one (- I think)
>
>>         movlw   0xff    ;set portb high
>>         movwf   portb   ;set portb to all 0's
>
>Your comment says you are setting portb all low, but isn't the hex that
>you've moved to W in the previous line 255? It makes no difference in
>your program, but the point is that it *could* :-(
>
>Just a suggestion, but I find binary easier to work in. When you need
>to manipulate one pin, you simply count from the right of your byte and
>that's the digit you change.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Sean
>
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