Post by thread:Supposed "inverting" slave port...

First, thanks to all who answered my cry for help. (Isn't the 'net just the best support you've ever gotten?) It turns out that it was a dumb hardware problem. Since we transplanted our test-head from an OS9 (m68k) system and made the big migration to Windows 95 I've been thinking in LITTLE_ENDIAN mode for many months... and so when I went to read byte zero on my card I was reading the BIG_ENDIAN *upper* byte instead of data bits 0-7 like I expected. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb... Anyway, someone clued me in to the errata sheet which detailed Parallel Slave Port bugs on the PIC I'm using, so I was able to implement the described work-arounds even before I figured out my hardware brain-fart. So when I called vilBoardVersion() from Visual Basic, fully expecting to have to track down yet another error... it reported all sixty-some bytes of the $Header$ string from its viboard.asm source file JUST LIKE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO! Me: "It worked? Something must be wrong, try it again." I'll be going home at 4:30 today, for a change. HUZZAH! Rick Miller