New chip blues....

Does anybody out there have the Epic programmer with the sot adapter? It appears to me that the printing on the chip may be backwards to the "normal" orientation of the Microchip devices.

The chip does not have an orientation notch in one end, and the datasheet indicates that the printing orientation is the same as every other Microchip device I have. So, cautiously, I put the chip in the programmer and found the regulators to get hot, not entirely unlike the way they got hot one time when I wasn't paying attention to a 16f device. Problem is, when the chip is oriented the other way, the programmer doesn't see it.

Does anybody know what the "proper" orientation of the chip is?

(hope this initial experience isn;t a forshadow of things to come)

Gary