At 03:26 PM 1/24/98 +1100, you wrote: >Can anyone help a new user who cant do what should be dead simple > >How do you instruct MPASM to load the data eeprom at program stage ? > >thanks >Jim > > Jim, MPASM has a "Declare EEPROM" directive. Try this: ORG H'2100' DE 0,1,2,3,4 Of course, replace 0,1,2,3,4 with your data. If you want any text characters, you can use DE "Any text" The double quotes are needed. Hope this helps! Greg Maki