I hate .pdf reference manuals. I will stay with the group and purchase PIC BASIC (according to the picture it comes with both a CD and a real 20th Century paper manual). PIC BASIC LITE does not appear in the Microchip SEARCH engine. Oh, well. What's another $250? (I just paid $374 for the left tail light of my car. It comes as one big assembly. All I did was break the red plastic lens!)

I was intimidated by the 270 page and 290 page .pdf files which purported to tell me all I need to know to write in MPASM.

I have coded in assembly, in Pascal, in C and C++ (even fortran way back when). Never in Basic. I hope you guys a patient.

Ken