Help with pic over usb

Hello,

I am a linux user (running Fedora 13 at work and some Ubuntu or related at
home) and I would like to work with a PIC32 on a board
connected to my computer via USB.  The way I have seen it done by someone
with a windows computer is that he ran a terminal emulator [BV-Com.exe]
and the connection to the pic was done, then he could
load and run his programs.  The programs are written in "ByVac" Basic.
The board comes with a SD drive so at the moment I
save the programs on the card, then power up (using the USB cable) to
test.  So I don't convert the programs, just save them on the card and
they run.

The board is provided by ByVac, and they said there should be
no problem with linux, that any terminal emulator would do.  But how do I
get "any terminal emulator" to connect to the virtual com port?

To be clear, I do not want to test my programs on the computer, I would
just like to load them from the pc.

Any suggestions?

I apologise if this question is pretty basic, maybe even stupid, I have
been using linux for more than 10 years so it's rather the PIC that's the
novelty to me.

Anyway, I thank you in advance for any help you may be able to provide.

Best regards

anne

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anne Vanhoest

Implanted Devices Group

Medical Physics and Bioengineering Department
Malet Place Engineering Building
UCL

Gower Street
WC1E 6BT London

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