At 4:18 PM +0100 8/13/01, D Lloyd wrote:
>Hi,
>
>How "short" is your "short" cable? I'm not familar with the PicStart item
>but if it is anything like my home-made parallel programmer then the cable
>length can be critical.
>
>Regards,
>Dan

About 4 inches. As I said, this cable has worked OK for lots of other
in-circuit programming of 16F877s, so it's not my first suspect. But
I'm no expert on the electronic subtleties, could there be something
about the '871 that makes it more sensitive to these things?

Dave Johnson

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