I know that in theory one could run MPLAB under WINE, but does anyone actually do it??? If so, how well does it work? I don't know much (anything, actually) about WINE but my understanding is that it primarily acts as an interface to allow Windows system calls to be mapped onto the equivalent Unix system calls (I feel sure that statement is an oversimplification, but generally speaking isn't that the way it works?) Does the use of MPLAB under WINE (assuming someone is using it and has glowing reports) imply that one could then use the ICD2 (with MPLAB ) also? I know about LPLAB, but I need ASM30. Sure would like to run my stuff under Linux, though. The problem has to do with file access, since I have different tools in Linux that I use to write a program with. Right now, I have to transfer the assembler file from Linux to Windows, and since my version of Linux cannot write to an NTFS-formatted disk, I have to use a roundabout way of transferring them. Thanks for any suggestions. John -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist