Lisa Hansen:

A bit of a brute force method you tried huh?

Do you have to put on a new tire on the front
of the bike to travel for each new turn of the
wheel? Of course not....the tire is good for many turns.

Why don't you try to re-use the inner instructions
that do the main part of the work in your program
inside of a loop so the program is much smaller and
more manageable. Look for example....here is a way
move 32 bytes of the internal SRAM to the XRAM as
a loop. After you look at this maybe you can adapt
the loop concept to your problem.

Save This Code

;
;move 32 bytes of internal RAM starting at zero
;to XDATA space at 0800H.
;
MOVIT:
   MOV   R0, #0        ; pointer for start of IRAM
   MOV   DPTR, #0800H  ; pointer for start of XRAM
   MOV   R2, #32       ; byte counter 
MOVLP:
   MOV   A, @R0        ; get IRAM byte to A
   MOVX  @DPTR, A      ; move the byte to XRAM
   INC   R0            ; increment the IRAM pointer
   INC   DPTR          ; increment the XRAM pointer
   DJNZ  R2, MOVLP     ; decrement loop count and jump
;                      ; if more still to be done
;
   ... program continues from here
;

Michael Karas