"whereas "erase" implies setting it to all 1s".

Ahhh.....never knew that.  Always assumed it was zero.  Thanks!

Didn't pay attention to the start of this thread.  Should i ask about
the reason....???


----- Original Message -----
From: "Olin Lathrop" <olin_piclist@EMBEDINC.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: filling unused program memory


> > Isn't this the purpose of erasing a chip before programming?  I'm new to
> > this PIC stuff still, but the Tait programmer I'm using seems to state
> > that using the erase command on the same command-line as dumping
> > the hex file to the PIC will erase the chip first and then drop on the
> > code whereever there is code.  All mem locations w/o code will not
> > be touched.
>
> He wants to set unused memory to 0 (although his reasons seem silly),
> whereas "erase" implies setting it to all 1s.
>
>
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