On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Peter Moreland wrote:
I take it windows folk (who aren't programmers) won't be able to run this? I couldn't see a binary that looked suitable.. Or am I just being very dense?
Compilation Recommended. Under Windows, if the author doesn't have Windows 32s, then you might be up against the Windows peering in at how people make these things, and with no access to the program at all. With source code, if it hasn't been compiled to run under your kernel and under your version of XWindows, then it might work, anyway. The same code might even have provisions for a Mac or a Dec Alpha, such is the portability of UNIX. Plus, if you see a lot of red print go by during the compilation, then you can expect some flakiness, and you might even figure out how to fix it. I heartily recommend compiling it, because every computer programmer in the world has seen a message that she didn't understand. That's why she became a programmer...so that she could make the message go away, even if the error was still there. _______ Wyszkowski's Second Law: Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.