Thanks Picnaut.

The concept sounds great. I downloaded, unzipped and installed. It all ran with no drama on a Toshiba TECRA laptop with WinXP pro on it. I don't know if it has the latest VB nonsense on it.

I was not using MPASM and so I had to download it, unzip it and tell MicroCode Studio Plus to use MPASM - a few clicks.

Now the hard part. Programs which previously compiled and ran fine crash at compile time with a heap of MPASM error messages.

@ DEVICE PIC16F876A, HS_OSC, etc gives me an 'unknown processor' (16F876A) message.

Cannot find PIC16F876.inc , trisc not previously defined, etc, etc. The error list takes pages and pages.

A previously working PBP program that generates code of 2512 words using the PBP default assembler fails to compile and generates 3444 errors when using MPASM as the assembler.

I checked the program directory and there is a new subdirectory. In it is a file with _051103_094849 appended. Your program certainly seems to work as advertised and might eventually solve my backup problems.

Unfortunately I am up against a deadline so I'm going back to the tried and true (PBP assembler) to finish this job. I hope to get back on this early next week.

If you could make your program compatible with the PBP default assembler that would be fabulous. In the meantime I have to find the time to learn how to drive MPASM.


Thanks again

Brian