On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Scott Dattalo wrote:

>
>Bernard
>
>You might try floating this idea on the GNUPIC mailing list. However, if
>you want this project to succeed then you're most probably going to have
>to lead it. Jim Robertson's opinions of GNU and device programmers may be
>misguided, but are basically true. (Paraphrasing: there are too many Linux
>wankers and wannabes...)
>
>
>Oh, one question; How do you use the picstart plus programmer on the Linux
>side? :)
>

I tried to get MPLAB running under linux using wine. I could start it and
assemble programs but I couldn't download programs to the PIC using the
picstart plus programer. This is because a few specific functions for
serial communication aren't implemented in wine. I asked on the wine
mailing list if anybody is implementing those functions but they told me
that at the moment nobody is doing this. Pherhaps somebody of the wine
developers will do this in the future.

Kraft Bernhard