Hi,

I think Melanie in her remarks in her program was reffering to a LCD with 2 rows and 16 characters on each row (2*16 LCD). Melanie usually uses as little special hardware as possible so she probably just pulled up the most common LCD from her magic drawer. This LCD is electrically connected to the PIC using 4 data lines (and some more) which are mentioned in the LCDOUT command.

If you have 2 cables to the LCD (plus power) is is probably a serial LCD which can not be used using the LCDOUT command.

Hard to tell without haveing the schematics and really understanding what you whish to do.