redtock8@dxtron wrote:

> My table starts at h1000 and crosses a couple
> of pages. It is a table of words to send to

Couple? There's the problem. You only pass in an
8 bit 'offset' so you can't possibly compute a
valid start address for any 'msg' past the first 255 bytes.

You need to compute a two byte offset, and add BOTH
bytes to PC to fetch the desired message bytes.

Robert

> a display. My problem is when the text crosses
> a page. I could use an example if any one has one.

> Thanks
> Al
redtock8@dxtron wrote:
> I'm trying to display text entries from a large
> table and am having a problem. My table crosses pages
> so I am trying some code from PICLIST.COM.
> works but always goes 8 address beyond
> where the char is.
> Thanks for any help
> Al
> 
> DISPLAY_TABLE
>    movwf               offset                               ;save the 
> table index
>    call                    msg                                  ;go get 
> char
>    movwf               txsend                              ;move it to 
> tx char buffer
>    andlw                0xFF                               ;
>    btfsc                 status,0x2                         ;is it zero ?
>    goto                 done                                 ;yes-return
>    call                   tx2display                         ;no-send to 
> display
>    movf                offset,w                             ;
>    addlw              0x1                                   ;inc offset
>    goto                DISPLAY_TABLE           ;GET NEXT CHAR 0xF4
> DONE:
>    return                                                       ;return 
> to calling routine
> (got this code below from PICLIST.COM)
> MSG
>    movlw              high(table_start)
>    movwf              pclath
>    movf                offset,w
>    addlw               table_start
>    btfsc                ststus,c                    ;
>    incf                  pclath
>    movwf             pcl
> 
> TABLE_START
>                           retlw...............
>                        last entry is retlw   0
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