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

[patrick friend]

How much disk space to load cygwin and how much for xastir...I'd like to try
it on my laptop but only about 1gig free space at the moment: XPpro,
pent2-366, 288mb ram....got a link to download cygwin? I can just google it
but if you get it handy?

73, Patrick, K7ETT

----- Original Message -----
From: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
To: "Curt Mills" <hacker at tc.fluke.com>
Cc: "Tim Schall" <ka7pbi at fortgirlfriend.com>;
<xastir-dev at krypton.hscs.virginia.edu>; <xastir at krypton.hscs.virginia.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:33 PM
Subject: [Xastir] Re: [Xastir-Dev] Word's out: Xastir on Windows...


> 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.
>
> Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo.com
> http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
>   Lotto:  A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown
> Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.
> The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"
>
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