Problem with DATA in PBP

[kacho]

Hi ,
I`m using PBP ,16F88 and Screamer bootloader.
I try to store messages in the Eeprom but the sentence DATA @100, " HOLA GENTE " is ignored in the program

I try to read the PIC con IC prog,and the eeprom don`t store the message ?.
The rest of the program work perfect.WRITE and READ commands working OK,but DATA don`t work ??
Here is an extract..

FLAGS=0
include "88.inc"
define inthand myint
DATA @100, " HOLA GENTE "
...................
...............
Any help? ,thanks !!

[NavMicroSystems]

kacho,

the DATA statement in PBP works fine with the F88.

have you viewed the HEX-file generated by PBP in MPLAB (or ICprog)?
is there any EEPROM Data?

case yes:

Try to program the chip using ICprog, read it back and let us know the result.

[Archilochus]

Hi kacho,
I don't know if "DATA" can be used to write a string like that.
Maybe try:
DATA @100,72,79,76,65,32,71,69,78,84,69 ;ASCII values for " HOLA GENTE "
(hope I got the ASCII codes right).

Arch

< EDIT >
Hmmm... the manual says "DATA" can handle strings - strange.
< EndEDIT >

[NavMicroSystems]

Arch,

DATA can handle strings, and kacho's code example is ok.

The problem must be with his loader.

I don't know this loader, so I cant tell wether or not there are options like

- write code only
- write data only
- write code and data

so far it looks like there has just no data been written.

Let's wait for kacho to get back with his results from the test I have suggested.

[Archilochus]

Hi Ralph,
Yup - noticed that once I took a peek at the PBP manual (that's why I added the < EDIT > line to my original post).

Now only if we could assign strings to arrays :-)

Arch

[NavMicroSystems]

This

is a workaround to assign (static) strings to arrays

[DynamoBen]

The bootloader doesn't seem to program the onboard EEProm. I'm not entirely sure that it is supposed to.

Post to the forum on the sparkfun site...sparky is pretty good about responding to posts.