Steve,
Ha, you're right, it even says that in the manual. However, and I guess I could try this, but are you (and the manual) saying that when using "\bits" it always shifts out LSB first? The manual really isn't clear as it just says it's the low order bits regardless of the MODE but it doesn't really say if it completely disregards the MODE and does LSB first even if told to do MSB.

I guess, based on Ryans post, that it does shift them out in the correct order, ie \24 on a long will start at the MSB of the third byte and go "down" to the LSB of the first byte.

As for Ryans array example I'd expect the output to be 00000001 01111111 11111111. The first bit going out is the MSB of myArray[0] and the last bit going out is the LSB of myArray[2].

/Henrik.