Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:07:30 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [Ux2bs_Archive] No. 390 ************************************************** Wednesday 19 January 2005 Number 390 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 RE: [UX2BS] SLANG : PATRICK ASH " **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: TUE, 18 JAN 2005 13:24:49 +0000 From: "PATRICK ASH " Subject: RE: [UX2BS] SLANG ON THU, 13 JAN 2005 13:09:22 +0000, JOHN POLTORAK WROTE: >AT THE MOMENT THE SLANG BUILD ONLY CONSISTS OF BUILDING THE SLANG LIBRARY, >BUT IT COULD BE MUCH MORE USEFUL THAN THAT. UNFORTUNATELY THE PC BUILD >DIFFERS QUITE SUBSTANTIALLY FROM THE UNIX WHICH INCLUDES AN INSTALL >TARGET. IT WOULD BE NICE TO BE ABLE TO GRAFT THAT ONTO TO THE PC BUILD. >DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS ABOUT HOW TO DO THAT? ALTERNATIVELY I COULD TRY >BUILDING SLANG USING THE UNIX ROUTE BUT I'M NOT SURE HOW USEABLE THE >LIBRARY IS AS A RESULT. CAN ANYONE TELL ME? THE FIRST TIME I ATTEMPTED A BUILD (VERSION 1.44 I BELIEVE) I TWEAKED THE CONFIG TO DO THE BUILD. IT COMPLETED AND I WAS ABLE TO LINK IT TO LYNX, BUT WITH MUCH DIFFICULTY. THE RESULTING LYNX WAS FUNCTIONAL, BUT NOT THE SAME AS WITH NCURSES. NOT SURE IF THE BUILD OF SLANG OR JUST IT'S CAPABILITIES AFFECTED LYNX. AS I RECALL, THINGS WENT MUCH SMOOTHER IF I USED A BUILD OF SLANG COMPILED WITH THE DOS DMAKE METHOD. PERHAPS I JUST DID NOT TWEAK THE CONFIGURE SCRIPT WELL ENOUGH. PAT -- PATRICK ASH PATASH at COMCAST.NET THERE ARE ONLY 10 KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD -- THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND BINARY AND THOSE WHO DON'T. This OS/2 system uptime is 14 days, 16:12 hours and 19 seconds _______________________________________________ UX2BS mailing list UX2BS at os2ports.com http://os2ports.com/mailman/listinfo/ux2bs