Jeff,
I too am a beginner and ran into similar problems.
The, "Look at Nigel Goodwin's PIC Tutorial series" is very good advice.
I have made all the boards in the series and everything works as
described.
If you have code written in assembly use MPASM.exe. (It's free !)All you
do is enter the name/location of your .asm file and hit a button called
Assemble & Voila ! it turns it into hex code that you use to program
your chip.

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Byron A Jeff
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 3:53 AM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [PIC]beginner: help with PIC16F88

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 12:21:38AM -0700, James Mullins wrote:
> 
> Hi I'm new to the world of PIC's so sorry if this realy dumb question.

No need to apologize. Welcome aboard.

> Currently I'am trying to familarise my self with PIC programming by
working
> my way through a book I found at the libary.

Which book is that?

> I'm atempting to convert and
> assemble code originaly designed for a PIC16F84 to something i can use
with
> a PIC16F88 using MPLAB.

A warning. A 16F84 program may not be your best starting point. As I
point out
in my 16F88/16F84 comparison page:

http://www.finitesite.com/d3jsys/16F88.html

The 16F88 has a ton of hardware support, ADC, capture/compare, PWM,
USART,
and the like. The 16F84 has virtually no periperal support. So other
than the
blinking LED application, the 16F84 will have to use software to emulate
those
features. Take a look at Nigel Goodwin's PIC tutorial series, which uses
a
16F628 and a 16F876, for a more up to date look:

http://www.winpicprog.co.uk/pic_tutorial.htm

>  What i've done is taken the code from the book and
> placed it under main in the MPLAB 16F88 template file. Below is the
code I'm
> trying to build within MPLAB and the following output.
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/user-files/235749/f88tempo.asm f88tempo.asm 

Close to the typical light an LED program.

> Clean: Deleting intermediary and output files.
> Clean: Deleted file "C:\pic\code\prog2\f88tempo.o".
> Clean: Deleted file "C:\pic\code\prog2\f88tempo.ERR".
> Clean: Deleted file "f88tempo.lst".
> Clean: Deleted file "C:\pic\code\prog2\prog2mplab.mcs".
> Clean: Done.
> Executing: "C:\Program Files\Microchip\MPASM Suite\MPAsmWin.exe" /q
/p16F88
> "f88tempo.asm" /l"f88tempo.lst" /e"f88tempo.err" /o"f88tempo.o" /w2
> Executing: "C:\Program Files\Microchip\MPASM Suite\MPLink.exe"
> "C:\pic\code\prog2\16F88.lkr" "C:\pic\code\prog2\f88tempo.o"
> /o"prog2mplab.cof" /M"prog2mplab.map"
> MPLINK 4.04, Linker
> Copyright (c) 2006 Microchip Technology Inc.
> Error - section 'RESET_VECTOR' can not fit the absolute section.
Section
> 'RESET_VECTOR' start=0x00000000, length=0x00000002
> Errors    : 1
> 
> BUILD FAILED: Tue Aug 22 11:17:25 2006

It's something about how your linker sections are layed out. Could you
post the
16F88.lkr file?

BAJ
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