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echo: fmail_help
to: Nicholas Boel
from: Wilfred van Velzen
date: 2016-11-22 16:31:30
subject: Re: Fmail, HPT and FastEcho

Hi Nicholas,

On 2016-11-22 09:02:24, you wrote to me:

 WV>> I don't own a Pi, and I know almost nothing about it, where it might
 WV>> be different from "regular" x86 linux. But my guess
is, that if it
 WV>> compiles on linux it wouldn't be hard to compile it for the Pi either.
 WV>> (Unless bit order is different on the arm processor?)

 NB> FYI, moving most current FTN software from x86 linux to an ARM linux system
 NB> gives some kind of binary execution format error.

Of course x86 code doesn't run natively on arm processors. So you can't
just copy the "exe" file and expect it to work.

 NB> Every time I've encountered this so far, it just needs to be
 NB> recompiled on the new architecture without any changes to the code.
 NB> Hopefully that is the case here as well.

I hope so too! ;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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