Thank You Mister_e,
I will have to think on this awhile, but I see it throws out the 2 LSB and then throws out the 4 MSB, seems odd, I just have to get my thick head around it. Would it be possible to use say PortB and use only 4 ports in BCD fashion while using the rest as outputs? Something like
Index = PORTB<3:0>?
Thanks
JS