Bryan Freed wrote:
> Thanks for the response, Don.
> Don McKenzie wrote:

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> It seems like a software issue to me because I cannot see the
> clock signal coming off the DB25 wire.  The cable itself tests
> fine, and the programmer connections are good.
> I tried fiddling with the DEVICE.INI settings as I saw in
> http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~donmck/vicuni/16f877.html.  I still
> get the programming failure.  I opted not to try the Nigel Goodwin
> software since I am not familiar enough with it to configure it
> for a p16pro programmer.

Have a look at the bottom of:
http://www.dontronics.com/p16pro.html

You will see you have to set up vpp and vpp2 to program 877s.
These settings are for a 7407, however I think you simply invert the
whole table to get the correct result, but I know it won't work without
the correct VPP settings. lots of users had trouble with that.

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