Thanks LinkMTech and Mackrackit:

Both worked. FYI, I fly RC planes and have recently gained interest in the PIC stuff, mostly with the 12F683 due to its size. I'm learning this stuff...slowly (but wow, has it got potential!).

I have a couple more questions hopefully you can help me with.

1. having some issues simply running LED's on ports other than gpio.0 and 1. I'm not sure if I need to assign them, change them??? When trying, I see they have a faint glow???

2. When using GPIO.4 and an input to store a pulsin value, the program works, but if I use GPIO.3 it doesn't. I can't figure that one out.

Thanks again gents.

John.