All, You got me on that one. I had to laugh at myself. Upon rereading my post, I realize that the way I wroded it was a little misleading. So I guess I'll put a new LCD in the machine and go on. Later Ya'll, Jim > Michael Rigby-Jones wrote: > >>>" In 4 bit mode, you cannot query the busy bit" ... >>> ------------------------------------------------ >>> >>>Don't tell my display this. It doesn't know. It's been >>>checking the busy bit in 4 bit mode now for over 4 years. >>> >>> >>> >> >>I think you are going to have to accept your display is broken. LCD's >>are slow, but I'm fairly sure none of the operations take as long as 4 >>years... :o) >> >> >> > The guy one bench over from him is probably still laughing about > replacing the LCD's oscillator with a 1 femto hertz unit. > > -Adam > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.