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Rolf,
I can also ask Wiznet if they will send you a couple. I think it would be smart for them to help you support their product.

Thanks.
Ron

Rolf,
The reply will be "how many people will buy your parts if a full featured and easy to use compiler supports them and makes them easy to use". The may not agree but it is worth a try.

Ron

I have always worked for small companies so I have heard the "how many will you buy" argument too many times. I am of the opinion that having 100 customers who are 1% of your business is much better than 5 customers who are each 20%. If one customer is taken away by my competitor then I can still afford to eat. Also my competitors are looking at the tuna and swordfish which means that they will not bother with my sardines!

Frank,
The Xport is ok for serial data but if you need to be able to send email it has issues such as requiring the actual address of the email server and not being able to send anything other than pre-determined strings- the message cannot easily reflect data such as "TEMPERATURE OVER 45 DEGREES". There are only two ways to trigger an email with a pin and with a 2 character match but if you use the character match you must use ascii data to prevent any binary data from coinidentally sending the 2 bytes that trigger an email. The Xport AR is much better. Digi also has one which appears to be more friendly and very similar to the Xport AR. They have what appears to be a very nice and relatively inexpensive development package.

If there was a TCP/IP implementation for this compiler which allowed the user to do things similar to the way that Rabbit Semi's compiler and Rabbit web package it would be an exceptionally powerful tool for those of us who have customers demanding web enabled devices. Personally I would like to stay with the AVR and avoid going back to C. I did that years ago for the PIC.

Ron