> >To me that sounds like you should use a bootloader instead. > > I have thought about this a lot. I think the strongest > argument is that I > want them to be able to go buy a new PIC in the middle of the > night if they > fry one, and they want to present the "successful" view to me > in the daytime. For a classrom-like situation one real programmer + a bunch of bootloader-based boards for the students might be a good setup. This is what I sold to a Belgium school. > A URL to a target board or pinout would save me some searching. check http://www.voti.nl/dwarf DB016 Wouter van Ooijen -- ------------------------------------------- Van Ooijen Technische Informatica: www.voti.nl consultancy, development, PICmicro products -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics