On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Christopher Dusch wrote: *>No kidding! Actually it would not be so good. Several flash and memory products from other manufacturers had 'self erase' problems in the field afaik, due to too simple erase and write commands. PICs never suffered of this. At a price ... Peter -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.