[Coco] Re: FLEX+ runs on a COCO3

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 09 December 2003 07:54, John E. Malmberg wrote:
>Richard E. Crislip wrote:
>> Hello John
>>
>> Did you know that Flex was ported to the Amiga and can be found on
>> Aminet? I got it running a long while back, but since I didn't
>> have any software for it or any knowledge of its command
>> structures.. I kinda gave up on it. I have since learned of the
>> existance of the Flex Users Group, nut now don't have a lot of
>> free time to explore it <sigh>. BTW it is the 6809 version that
>> was ported.
>
>I am not familiar with Aminet.

Aminet is a worldwide system of mirrors for amiga software 
distribution, headquartered at Washington University in St. Louis, 
and contains in the area of 10gigabytes of freely downloadable 
software, some PD, some shareware with activation schemes etc.

I think you can still address it at <http://www.us.aminet.net>

rant mode on.

Anyone who has written something for the amiga can submit it to that 
archive if you can get past Urban Meullers super fussy submission 
format.  I submitted the last working version of ghostscript, version 
5.10 (thats got iridium dust on it now) which had full ps level 2 and 
pdf 1.2 support in it, which takes about 4 or 5 seperate files to 
satisfy whats PD and whats copyright Artofsoft but freely compileable 
on anything with a decent compiler.

Urban deleted it twice because the readme's were alike on all files 
and only had a short description and a list of what was needed to 
make the complete archive, all of which you needed to make it run on 
your system.  I didn't know any other way of making sure everyone got 
it all except by putting it all right up front in the readme.  As far 
as the description went, anybody who doesn't know what ghostscript is 
can be dismissed from class.  It was ghostscript, what else do you 
need to know?

As I was on a 33k dialup at the time, I sent it the 3rd time, then 
sent him a message to take it or leave it as that was the last &&$% 
time I was gonna be online for 5+ hours sending it.  He kept it, but 
scattered the files all over the directory system.  Jerk.

I've got lots of other amiga stuff, but that was the end of my wasting 
time fighting with Urban.  Now my amiga is dead and so is access to 
that stuff.  That included FWIW, the only "it actually works!" cron 
for amigados, and a home automation program based on x120 stuffs, all 
with fancy MUI built gui's to use when configuring them.

rant mode off.

>They may have useful information, and it may be that a new version
> for the COCO could be built from the ground up, just from the API
> description.
>
>-John
>wb8tyw at qsl.net
>Personal Opinion Only

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