At 11:45 AM 4/27/00 -0700, William K. Borsum wrote: >Is there any way using the newer MPLAB/Picstart Pro's to >1. program chip with protect off >2. Verify the chip >3. turn on the protect >The newer versions don't seem to allow options to just set the protect fuse >(#3) without potentially trying to re-porgram the chip again, whereas I >seem to recall the older (2-4 years ago) did. I can't answer to points 1 & 2 above (but I always *thought* that was what they did) but you can program just the fuses by enabling the PS+, then going to PicStart | Program and then uncheck the boxes for the functions you DON'T want. dwayne Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax Celebrating 16 years of Engineering Innovation (1984 - 2000) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Do NOT send unsolicited commercial email to this email address. This message neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email.