> BANKSEL

> We have not gone over that command in the class yet

It will definitely help you to start using it now. I'm surprised it
hasn't been mentioned to you already, because you'd expect
to use it when initialising the chip

eg BANKSEL PORTA, BANKSEL TRISA etc

Apart from looking tidier (and quicker to type), BANKSEL
greatly reduces the chance of errors. You don't need to look up
what bank the register is in and won't make a typo using multiple
STATUS,RPx commands. And there are other relevant bits in
STATUS as well as RP0 and RP1. There can be also RP2 and
RP3, so you might end up in bank2 or bank3. There's also IRP

Code has been posted here in the past with many STATUS
bit-setting commands. It's untidy, hard and tedious to read and
frequently had typos which were causing the poster's problem
because the wrong bank was selected

I've used RPx explicitly only once. That was a very tight parallel
data transfer loop between two PICs when the direction had to
be changed faster than BANKSEL did it

wbr
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