Electronic Circuits and Projects Forum

hi guys.
been in bed with flu for couple weeks but its given me plenty time to play with pics!! so finaly feels like ive had a chance to try and nail a few basics and try a few things out!!! i am finaly starting to be able to get information out the DS!!! YAY (yes its taken way too long).
anyway been trying to get to grips with c18 wich as you all know has remained a complete mystry to me!!
making slow progress but realy enjoying it and as i am stuck in bed i get plenty chance to concentrate at last. anyway down to business.........
ive been trying a few things out and trying to avoid the 'soft' option of using c18 libs that are suplied as i figured i would learn more from making my own functions by study of DS.
some of theese functions i would like to group into collections say AD functions and put into a seperate file, then be able to call in the file into any prog i like by using the

#include<blah blah>.c (kind of thing)
but at the moment i dont realy want to go as far as nailing howto do proper libs like the ones microchip supply.
all i would like if its poss is to use an include statment in main program like above so i can then just add in any variables needed ect for the and use the functions. yes would be easier to simply cut and paste the functions in each time but i would like to keep main.c clutter free! and have the functions in a sep file.
can this be done and if so how do i do it!! i have trawled the net but it seems to just relate to proper libs.
BTW i am not bothere about diff chips being compatable at the mo , once ive got better at actualy codeing then i will move onto the making of proper libs that can transfer to other chips
sorry if its a bit of a ramble but on heavy duty painkillers for my back at the mo!