I used <b>Poke $85,%00000000</b> and it seemed to work. I didn't use <b>Poke $85,%00001000</b> because I wasn't sure if I considered voltage at MCLR an "input" so to speak and because the data sheet seemed to indicate setting MCLR poked that value properly itself. I'll have to go back and read it again.

I did also figured out to use the poke command for the comparitor to turn it off and this chip doesn't have ADC so I didn't worry about that. It is still somwhat foggy on it all since usually only some of the 8 bits are used for any one register and I've been assuming to just fill the rest with 0. So far so good. No smoke anyway.

Bart