I have a Pic Programmer that's been around for some time now and it is parallel port.I would like to be able to connect up to a USB serial port of my laptop.I have seen where someone has used a Arduino to make this conversion but do not have the sketch for it. I know I could just go out to E bay or something and purchase one but was hoping to fine a better solution here.
Thanks
I would not use a PIC for a hobby project anymore. I know they are tough little buggers, but unless you want to create a high volume application where every penny counts, use a modern ARM Cortex-M based microcontroller or module. They are so much easier to use and you can waste memory and processing cycles to spare.
Try running a blinky LED on a 100MHz 32-bit processor. Who needs a PIC for that? 
Get a USB Parallel port stick and connect the PIC to it.
I think "the problem" is making the USB device "look like" a parallel port to the software & drivers. There's probably an easy way to do that but it would take some research.
You may find that a USB-parallel port converter does not produce a "real" parallel port that can handle the timing required by a device that was designed when parallel ports were a standard part of a PC.
My advice would be to buy a new programmer, or put the PIC chips aside and use Arduinos and Arduino compatible chips.
...R
Larryfos:
I have a Pic Programmer that's been around for some time now and it is parallel port.I would like to be able to connect up to a USB serial port of my laptop.I have seen where someone has used a Arduino to make this conversion but do not have the sketch for it. I know I could just go out to E bay or something and purchase one but was hoping to fine a better solution here.
Thanks
I did some limited PP work to read sensors through opto-isolators in the 90's, I don't expect all PP uses to wring the port out.
Do you know the details of what your programmer needs?
Do PIC chips use STK500 programming? ICSP?