On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Anne Ogborn wrote: > On a similar note - > I've downloaded MPLAB. > Would be convenient to burn chips right from MPLAB. > I have one of those little 3rd party programmers that > uses the parallel port to directly pull the voltages up > and down. Can I somehow tell MPLAB which pins are what > and have it do the programming? MPLAB does not have built in programming algorithms to handle these very low cost programmers. As noted previously, there are other solutions. I'd recommend PICSTART Plus, but, of course, I'm a little biased. Darrel