Re:What pogramming app to use?

tj writes:
>I am new to his list and to using a Linux box to develop code for the 
>PIC processors.
>I have been getting everything together, gpasm, gputils, etc, but I have 
>really confused about a tool to download code to the PIC via either 
>parallel or serial ports. I plan to first use LVP on the parallel port 
>(using 16F873), then maybe build a high voltage ICSP at a later date.

I've been using pk2cmd (which is specific to the PICkit 2 -- I don't
remember whether this programmer does LVP).  On top of that, I've been
using the kpk2cmd GUI.