Thanks again..those who pointed out some errors.  Now, I did read the app=

notes about reads/writes and followed the example but I could never get i=
t to
work.  The other problem is, since I could not get it to work, I tried to=
 copy
other code snippets, but being from a diff processor, it was not exactly =
the
same.  So live and learn..

What I did find was I had to set the page bits back to 00 else it would g=
o off
to never never land.  Strange the notes didnt mention it.

So for those who care, this is the routine that works.  Next I will go ba=
ck to
the writes...so stay tuned for more HELP ME posts!
testread:
        movlw   _minutes        ; points to location in EEPROM
        movwf   EEPROM_ADR      ;  and store to variable
        call    TESTRD
        movf    EEPROM_DATA,W   ; get EEPROM data and store to W
        movwf   MINUTES


TESTRD:
        movf    EEPROM_ADR,W    ;0x00
        bcf     STATUS,RP0      ; change to page 2
        bsf     STATUS,RP1      ; change to page 2

        movwf   EEADR           ; set up eeprom address from W
        bsf     STATUS,RP0      ; change to page 3
        bcf     EECON1,EEPGD    ; Be sure to read from EEPROM
        bsf     EECON1,RD       ; set the read bit
        bcf     STATUS,RP0      ; back to page 2
        movf    EEDATA,W        ; return value in W
        movwf   EEPROM_DATA     ;  and store
        bcf     STATUS,RP0      ; change to page 0
        bcf     STATUS,RP1      ; change to page 0
        return

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