yes I found that out a couple of hours ago,
I even saw on a web site the exact program I was doing in both version:
http://www.imagesco.com/articles/lcd/05.html
The second book from John Iovine explains this.
But I still having trouble sending information to the LCD. It powers on. He says that I need only one wire to the LCD. I tried every pin out possible and it do not work., It should be pin 6 on the chip. Do i need to rewire the lcd ?

ken