I also have just purchased the PIC-1 Programmer from ITU.  I haven't had
any problems programming the 16F series chips.

Just type:  picprg8x <hex filename> at the dos prompt.  THis is what I
use and it works fine.

-Scott

On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Wilson Tam wrote:

> Hi there!
>
> I've just received ITU's PIC-1 Programmer and tried burning
> a program into a PIC16F84, but encountered problems.  The
> ITU software fails in downloading the program into the chip.
> One thing which I've noticed was the programming software
> which I've received had only the option of 16CXX and 12CXX, but
> none for 16FXX. I just want to know if anyone has bought this
> programmer and used it for 16F series chips. If so, how?
>
> Thanks!
>