Read the newbee threads, 16F877A no go.

[mister_e]

you know, in ALL programming language, error message are often helpfull but often they wouldn't point you the exact line or part of code where the error is. It's amazing what a missplaced or missing ENDIF, WEND, Variable declaration could do also

here's a reaally short example

b1 var byte

I2cread PORTB.0,PORTB.1,0,0,[b1]

try this as is. Without anything else It compile O.K right ???

Now remove the first line and compile the code and see what's happen

ERROR Line 3: Expected '['. (a.bas)