ron hathcock wrote:
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All help is very appreciated
have 2 questions 1 the dptr does not start at zero.
how do i se the dptr to zero.


MOV DPTR,#0



2 how do i transfer the data that is pointed to on the data table into the accumulator

You almost had it.

MOV A,#index ;or whatever
MOV DPTR,#words ;address of start of words.
MOVC A,@DPTR+A

...but bear in mind that the Acc can only hold 0..255


Steve