I'm sure I've asked this before but I can find the answer in the archieves.

I have a project based on the 16f877 with 2 x RS232 ports one of which is used as a boot loader the other one is just spare.
I store 50 user changable paramaters using the data command and read these at startup.

I want to allow the end user to read and change these paramaters and make a backup if required.

So my questions are these.

Can I use the mechanique bootloader to just read and write the ee2 memory or is it easier just to write a routine to read the 50bytes of data and send these out on the rs232 as a string, read this into a VB program then send the string back and just have pbp save the entire string using the data command?

Rob