I emailed Olin and he said I could quote him on the piclist:

(begin quote)
If you send me Forrest Chritian's email address, I'll send him and
Jan-Erik a reply.  Or if you like, you can mention on the list that the
same command line software that worked with the ProProg also works with
all our other programmers.  We are committed to supporting command line
tools.

The ProProg was discontinued because it was selling slowly, probably
because it had a serial interface.  It's hardware was also not
compatible with a lot of newer PICs that came out after the ProProg was
designed.

However, the USBProg2 is selling well and is hardware-compatible with
all current PIC models, although not all of them are supported yet by
the current software and firmware.  The USB protocol spec is completely
open and available via free download, as is the firmware and software.
We don't have existing software for it that runs on Linux, but would be
happy to provide support for someone creating it.  Our own software is
actually written to portability libraries that are intended to support
different operating systems by having their lower layers re-written.
The sections that need to be re-written are relatively small and
contained, but it is still a big enough job that it would take some NRE
for us to do it.


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