[Xastir] Re: [Xastir-Dev] Word's out: Xastir on Windows...

Curt Mills, WE7U archer at eskimo.com
Wed Feb 5 23:33:36 EST 2003


On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Curt Mills wrote:

> 
> I let it slip on the APRSSIG already:  WE7U-14 is currently an
> Xastir instance running under Cygwin on an NT4 box.
> 
> Charles Suprin has been running Xastir on Windows for several
> months.  Tim Schall and I tried it yesterday, Tim using XP and me
> using NT4.  On NT4 it appears stable, but I don't have a lot of
> runtime with it yet.  On XP it's less than stable on Tim's box.
> Charles has been running it on XP and is happy with it.

Tim gave me further info:  It was every time that his screen saver
kicked in that either Cygwin or XFree86 died (can't remember which).

I didn't have that sort of problem on the NT4 box when the
screensaver kicked in.

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