To have the configs in the source, look at the end of the
device include file (P16F87.INC). There is a cut-n-pasteable
example there.

> Well, what I meant is that my own custom include file, does actually
> include the MPLAB include file, so it does end up in the final file. 

But if so, why do you have lines like these in your source : ????

> rcsta	equ	18h
> txreg	equ	19h
> txsta	equ	98h	; my own definitions of some key USART locations
> spbrg	equ	99h

They are already defined in P16F87.INC.
Don't you get any warnings about "multiply defined symbols"
Have you disabled "case sensitivity" in MPALB. Recomended, IMHO...

> Also, I am very unsure about
> setting up the baud rate - in the 16F87 datasheet, it does have a lot
> of tables and forulae to work out what number to use, but this totally
> baffled me.

One thing you *definitly* have to know, is the speed your
PIC is running at. Knowing that, you can calculate the value
for the baud rate register as described in the data sheet.

> I looked at the tables, and used the high speeed baud rate mode, for
> the INTRC 8MHz table, and it said to use 51 for 9600.

Note that the values i the tabes i the data sheet are in *decimal*.
If you use them as-is, make sure that you specify them as decimal
constants, not hexadecimal. (As far as I can see, that is not any
problem in your code, but anyway...)

Jan-Erik.





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