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EPROM Burning Under Linux?

twdorris asks: "With all the talk about embedded Linux and with all the focus from typical Linux "guys" on hardcore hardware, I find myself a bit surprised by what appears to be a lack of support for EPROM burners under Linux. I have a Pocket Programmer make by Intronics that I use to burn performance mods to my car with. It's about as simple a task as there could be. I just need to burn 27c512's (a very common, simple EPROM). Yet I was not able to find any way to do this natively under Linux. Instead, I was forced to use DOS for this task (until I recently wrote a program to do it under Linux). Using DOS/Windows for things like paying bills is one thing...that's a typical "user" application that I don't mind relegating to a "user" OS. However, burning EPROMs is something that sure seems more appropriate to be doing under Linux. Anybody got any pointers to an EPROM burner and/or software that will work under Linux for this very much hardware related task?" That's a good question. I wonder if twdorris would mind sharing the code -he- used to burn EPROMS with Linux.

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