David and et al,
     I finally was able to locate the proper term to use for the=20
individual bits on a port. It is LATxn, where x is the port and n is the=20
bit number. Such as: LATA0 for RA0. I still can't send data to the LCD=20
but all of my warnings with went away and the LCD does initialize correctly=
..
Thanks,
rich!
P.S. I'm making some progress.
rich!

On 10/22/2015 8:18 PM, David Duffy (AVD) wrote:
> Can you give me a few lines of how you're using them in the code?
>
> On 23/10/2015 11:01 AM, Richard R. Pope wrote:
>> David,
>>        Here are the pins used.
>>                #define LCD_rs                   RA0     //Pin 2 LCD pin =
4
>>                #define LCD_rw                  RA1     //Pin 3 LCD pin 5
>>                #define LCD_e                    RA2     //Pin 4 LCD pin =
6
>>                #define LCD_data     LATAD    19-22 and pins 27-30
>>        Notice that LATAD works with the LCD_data definition! I don't get=
 it.
>> Thanks,
>> rich!
>>
>> On 10/22/2015 7:45 PM, David Duffy (AVD) wrote:
>>> Ah.... I hadn't been playing along.  :)
>>>
>>> So, what actual port pin is RS on ?
>>> David...
>>>
>>> On 23/10/2015 10:08 AM, Richard R. Pope wrote:
>>>> David,
>>>>          Let's try this again. I decided to use a 18f4550 instead of t=
he
>>>> 16f877a. Sorry about that. The PIC and LCD initialize but I can't get
>>>> the LCD to accept and display any data such as a or b or hello there a=
nd
>>>> so forth. I have been discussing the 4550 all along and you were under
>>>> the impression that I was using a 877. My fault.
>>>>

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