As I said, never picked up an LCD display in my life so yes, knowing the backlight pins beforehand would have been nice. Who's to say the backlight wasn't powered through the Vdd and Vss? If you're new to something, best to spell it all out, right?

My bad on not considering the code within the command LCDOUT and A4 and B3 being part of it's instruction set.

It would have been nice to see that in larger print or part of the example. We all are newbies at one point with everything so no need to -- well, you know.

Thanks kindly for the reply. It must be the fact I'm using a 16c72 but like I say, ADCON1 = 7 sets all pins to digital and it has Ports A & B as most PICs do.

Everything compiles fine also -- I'll get there. Spent too much time on it yesterday.