>When code is only a few tens or hundreds of words, it puzzles me why
>MPLAB/the PICStart bothers to program all 16K words (18F452).... an obvious
>way is to shorten the program memory end address in
>"Programmer...Settings",
>but even if the address is on a 256-byte boundary, MPLAB always spits back
>random verify errors. The PIC seems to work OK in practice after such
>programming, but is there a hack to make MPLAB only program upto a certain
>upper limit of program memory?

We always used to just tell it we were using a smaller chip, for example, if
you
have a PIC16F876, tell it you're using an '873 and it'll only try to program
the
first 4k.  It doesn't work all the time, and I think in your case you may be
using
the minimum memory size chip for the family, but just a suggestion.

Mike H.

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