I'm in the process of rebuilding our production line test system.
The core machine which runs everything is a linux box.

Everything is great - linux is an awesome system to code this type of
system in--Well at least until you get to the point of actually
wanting to drive a PIC programmer in a production environment, at
which point the support sucks rocks.

The best support I've found so far is a ICD3 with the newer mplab x
derived tools.   But it fails regularly for no apparent reason.   And
is very slow.   I've tried others but have given up in frustration.

I'm not opposed to paying a good chunk of change for the right
programmer.   Most important is that it has to work well under Linux.
All I'm really looking for is a command line tool which I can say
'program hex file X into the part, and verify'.  And which is
fast-ish.  And reliable.   That's about it.

As I'm sure someone will ask, I'm programming PIC18f26k22's,
PIC18F67J60's, and I think the final one is a PIC18F47J53.

Any suggestions?

-forrest
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