... to anybody. But, as well, you don't need to run on somebody who was trying to help.

It might sound harsh, but, in my very humble and biased opinion, most of the teachers I had in the primary and secondary school as well as at the university, had troubles of conveying the material they were teaching to the average pupils - and those are supposed to be professionals in doing this. So, if somebody as William - who tries to provide help here - does fail to do it in an absolutely perfect manner, I don't think he deserves to be criticised for doing this.

You of course could have put a short notice that he might have attached the compiler environment etc. - that's a completely different thing.

Similarly, you often require precise and exhausting explanation of the problem from the posters of various questions. That's not a trivial task, by far not. So, why can't they now, for once, just not receive a ready-made perfect answer, but a valuable hint, which should be legible to all trying to deal seriously with '51, regardless of the peculiarities of this or that version of the '51 assembler and C-compiler?

Jan Waclawek