>  What I'd like to know is: how do I tell the PIC that it should execute
>this part of program only at first go after programming the PIC

Why not just program the EEPROM when you program the PIC?

Or do you want these values to be loaded every time the power to the PIC is
interrupted?

--Brendan

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