[Coco] Re: FLEX+ runs on a COCO3

[Richard E. Crislip]

Hello Gene

On 12/09/03, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.

DANG! 8-)))) 

Regards
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Cruisen                                                       _|_
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                                             Richard