I'll be the first one to admit I'm a novice programmer, so my problems with MPLAB may sound like 'duh, just do this and this to arrive there and get those files', but I tried using some general C-tutorials to learn more about the language, and whenever I would go to write some program with say, #include <stdio.h>, that file wouldn't be found and I would find myself unable to build said program.
Note: any and all help/smack upside the head for such blatant stupidity in regards to the above problem would be very much appreciated!
~kat
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