At 07:12 PM 3/5/98 -0000, you wrote:
>> Is there anyone who knows of any legal reason I
>> can't distribute a program
>> to drive the PICstart+ outside of MPLAB?
>
>As long as you've figured out how to do it without use of Microchip
>confidential information (that you would have signed a non-disclosure
>agreement to get), there is no reason why you shouldn't publish it.

There is an existence proof:  MacPic, an excellent shareware MPLab
equivalent assembler/editor for the Mac, that supports several programmers,
including the PicStart+.

Dan Walkowski