Embedded Strings in your Code Space

[DavidK]

This was a new one on me. I was trying to work DT’s "STRINGS.PBP" code for the first time and ran across an error from MPASM, the likes of which I had never seen before.

“The Microchip assembler (MPASM) only allows up to 62 characters for path and file name. Current length is 72 characters”

AHHHH ??Now, I am not 100% efficient on doing a forum search, but I could not find anything like this. Stumped big time and no where to go.

Contacted the author and low and behold I had my code buried 5 levels deep into subdirectories on my C:\ drive. Each subdirectory had long names, hence 72 characters by the time I got to the directory where I placed my "STRINGS.PBP" code. Changed the subdirectory names to shorter lengths and bingo, works fine. Even though all my projects have worked fine over the years, one needs to think how and where they store their projects,

Thought I would share this little “tidbit” just incase someone else runs into it.

[skimask]

“The Microchip assembler (MPASM) only allows up to 62 characters for path and file name. Current length is 72 characters”

You aren't the 1st one to get bitten by that one. That used to bite me every once in awhile for no particular reason...and would stump me for literally hours each time.
To cure it, awhile back I started a completely separate partition just for MPLAB, PBP, MCS, PICKIT2, all my programming stuff and keep it all in the root directory.
Even if I do have to type something out at the command line, the line ends up being relatively short. Not to mention, I can 'dynamically' adjust the partition size with Partition Magic since the partition is so small. And I backup the whole thing at PC startup with a simple ZIP batch file straight to a thumbdrive. Practically bullet proof...and transportable...