Matthew Rhys-Roberts wrote:

> I know it's hardly a problem to load the literal into W first, then move 
> W into the desired file, but why would they fail to design such a useful 
> one-step function?

a matter of RISC architecture... I guess :)
MOVFF (file to file) came out in 18F parts, was not there on earlier ones.

You can write a macro for MOVLF: the rationale is that such a macro will 
still, probably, be faster than a MOVLF-like instruction on a 80x86 CPU...


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