> > Don't forget that the PIC has a limited range of destinations.  Your
> > only two choices for d in the this case are F or W, meaning that
> > you either move the date in register f to itself or to W, but not
> > ever to another register other than those two.  In order to mov
> > to another register, you must do use the movwf instruction.
> >
> > Also note that movf w,w or movf w,f do not work!  W is not
> > really a register in the way that other registers are.  The only
> > difference between movf TEMP,w and movf TEMP,f is one bit.
> > There is no explicit statement of the address of the destination
> > register in the binary produced by these mnemonics.
> >
> > Confused yet?
>
>If not, then consider that this information is for the 16 family.  The 18
>family is different in that it has a MOVFF instruction, and WREG is mapped
>to the RAM address space.

Olin and Jan-Erik-

Thanks for pointing that out.  I'd forgotten to mention that.  IIRC, the
original question was about a 16f87x part, no?

Mike H.

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