>Is there no bit wise operator that lets me
>figure out which value of two is larger?

Have a look at the macros included with Olins development environment at 
http://www.embedinc.com/pic/ which has a nice list of more understandable 
macros for comparing than the Microsoft ones. Also get the PDF file from 
Jan-Erik that describes the various macros in Olins file. The link to the 
file is in Olins pages.

Do be careful though, as there is a set of macros that are used for other 
compares of multiple byte numbers which are not the ones you want. 

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