"ian field" wrote in message
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What I have is a Velleman K8048 programmer which only level shifts certain
pins on the RS232 connector to 5V logic level and feeds the resultant
signals to the PGD, PGC & VPP pins on the PIC - I was hoping MPLAB had a
compatibility mode for such a "dumb" programmer board.

Obviously the Velleman kit came with programming software, and the kit
schematic is almost identical to a couple of others I've downloaded, but
if a new PIC is introduced I'd have to trawl the net for programmer
software to support it, if it was easy to modify my kit to work with MPLAB
this would be a much simpler problem.

I can only recommend that you contact Microchip tech support and ask. We
have always used the ICD2.