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

[Steve Friis]

Tom Russo wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 06:20:09PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jerutley at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>   
>> I can confirm what Duffy says - I did a CVS install yesterday on FC6,
>> and it appeared as about 1"x1 1/2" window on my desktop initially
>> (screen res set at 1600x1200 on a 19" monitor).  But, as he says,
>> after you resize and close it, it will maintain that size afterward.
>>     
>
> Sure enough.  That's very odd, the default values of screen height and width
> are 1 and 61.  Bizarre choices, I don't ever remember seeing xastir start 
> up with those dimensions except during the very brief period where 
> the -geometry option was added and broken.  But clearly in xa_config.c
> these are the default values used if SCREEN_HEIGHT and SCREEN_WIDTH are 
> not found in the config file (as they would not be on the very first run).
>
> >From what I can see in CVS, this change happened in revision 1.17 of 
> xa_config.c, where the defaults changed from 640x480 to 61x1.  That was in
> 2002!  I'm amazed there haven't been more comments about that.
>   
It has been mentioned before, even by yours truly. Guess if it doesn't 
brake things,it is no big deal.

Steve/WM5Z