//turn on and off specific pins
//self explanatory these functions turn on and off
//individual shift register pins by number
//the numbers are defined in shiftPinNo.h and are
//named shPin1 through shPin64			
void pinOn(uint64_t shPin);
void pinOff(uint64_t shPin);
void allOn(void);
void allOff(void);
//this following function returns true if the pin 
//is on or false if not, it does not check the
//register state
//though it only checks if the bit is set or not in
//the _bitString
bool pinState(uint64_t shPin););