Jason E. Gorden prophesized: > I would rather have a command line utility -- the Parallax programming > software: "PEP" is, unfortunately, interactive, but stil only takes a few > keystrokes (and no painful mouse-clicks) to program a PIC. Good news for you : it *does* have a command line interface. I can't recall exact syntax right now, but check your manuals (or pep /? maybe). You basically tell pep everything it needs (the name of the hex file, etc) on the command line, and you never even see the interface screen. -- Greg Bell | "Counting SUCKS!" greg@cqt.com | -Beavis ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CommQuest Technologies, Inc. (619) 633-1618 x133