At 18:58 30/04/97 -0500, John Payson wrote:
>>Is it possible to simply take the four or so lines required to
>>program a part (and assuming I leave the required pins free on the
>>board) use my pic-start programmer to do the programming by taking the
>>relevant data lines from the ZIF socket to a socket on the board?
>
>There are potential problems with this approach, depending upon the design
>of your programmer.  Perhaps somewhat oddly, the cheaper the programmer the
>more likely this approach will work.  ...

Does somebody know whether Microchip's PICStart Plus does such "fancy"
things you mentioned? Or does it work as intended in this configuration?

Gerhard