[Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

[Amateur Radio WB8NUT]

Tom and all,

It's 1.7.1 - but I was also running 1.8.x on Ubuntu/Kubuntu 6.10 native 
installs and it does the same thing - starts for the first time as a 
little box. It's no big deal, after you resize it, it restarts at a 
normal size from there on out.  But if you are not expecting it, it's 
could be easy for a first-timer to miss - hence the note.

Duffy

Tom Russo wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:31:09PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <duffy at wb8nut.com> flavor, containing:
>   
>> I tried this method and it works very well.
>>
>> Go to www.vmware.com and download the free VMWare Player.  Install on 
>> your windows machine.
>>
>> Also on the VMWare site, download a virtual machine for Mepis Linux, 
>> Ubuntu Linux, or Kubuntu.
>>
>>     
> [...]
>
> I just read through your write-up about this on the wiki.  You note that
> the first time you start xastir, it starts up with a tiny window.
>
> This was a bug in a relatively old version of xastir --- what version of
> xastir are you getting by doing the apt-get?  It should not happen with any
> of the 1.8.x versions, and probably only happened in one or two of the 1.7.x
> versions.
>
>   


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