Thanks for your reply Bruce.

You have confirmed that the error messages were in fact meaningful and I now understand that a shorter path must be acheived to remain within the parameters of MPASM.

As to the suggested fix, you should remember that you are so far ahead of me in all of this that you are almost over the horizon! I can create a folder as you suggest and maybe even put the correct files into it but in doing so I would be stepping out of the cosseted realm of my IDE.

I want to write my code and then click the compile & program button achieving the result with no manual intervention.

The long path that is defeating MPASM comes from my slavish following of instructions. What I now need are some new instructions on how to modify my setup to automatically yield a path of acceptable length.

Thanks again & regards,

Brian.