Sean, If Optus is your home ISP they have not got their DNS server set correctly. If you type in the physical URL 198. what ever it is the Microchip site appears, but www,microchip.com comes up with a 404 error. No one at Optus support seems bothered. Colin -- cdb, bodgy1@optusnet.com.au on 01/12/2002 Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until they speak! -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.