Jinx wrote: > It makes more sense to me to use .60 > to re-load second and minute variables rather than 0x3C, when > the rest of the routine is in hexadecimal I'm not against decimal constants, in fact I use decimal as the default radix in my PIC development environment. I don't like the . syntax to specify decimal. It looks too much like it's meant to be a fractional value. ***************************************************************** Embed Inc, embedded system specialists in Littleton Massachusetts (978) 742-9014, http://www.embedinc.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist