On 2/6/2014 8:50 PM, Adrian Stoness wrote:
linux guys u prolly get it to run under wine
There is absolutely no point in using wine. On linux, just compile it and run,
like any other simple unix program.
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Don North <ak6dn at mindspring.com> wrote:
> On 2/6/2014 9:24 AM, Kyle Owen wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Philipp Hachtmann <hachti at hachti.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I see that you use Windows on the server side - I don't have Windows :-(
>>> Does it run under Linux as well? Or is the core functionality encapsuled
>>> platform independent? Or do I have to make a Linux version?
>>>
>> I wrote this with Linux in mind, in fact. I wrote this entirely in C, and
>> it compiles under gcc for both Mac OS X and Cygwin. I don't have a native
>> DOS/Windows version, and I don't intend to support one at this time.
>>
>> So rest assured, everyone: it will is supported on Linux, Mac OS X and
>> Windows under Cygwin.
>>
>>
> A Windows command line version can be had by distributing the Cygwin
> executable and the
> necessary Cygwin DLLs located in the same directory. Then you can run it
> from a regular
> windows command window as a command line application. No need to install
> Cygwin.
>
> That being said, Cygwin is so easy to install, and so useful, that I don't
> see why anyone in
> this group would ~not~ have it on their windows box.
>
> BTW I have a couple of PDP-8m systems with only floppy (and extra serial
> cards!) so I
> am ready for beta testing any time ...
>
> Don
>
>