Hello andrew!

*** 09-02-2003 at 17:19, andrew clarke (3:633/267) wrote to Martin Foster:

 ac> Sat 2003-02-08 19:03, Martin Foster (2:250/501.2) wrote to andrew
 ac> clarke: 

 ac> timEd has been successfully compiled and tested in FreeBSD, Linux and 
 ac> Cygwin environments.

MF> After removing the linefeeds from the makefile, I've managed to
MF> compile xmsgapi under BeOS but I'm stuck with timEd. I overcame the
MF> first obstacle by substituting "ncurses" with
"termcap" at the
MF> beginning of scrnutil.h but that's as far as it goes.

 ac> It really needs curses or ncurses.  I used
 ac> http://www.bebits.com/bob/12783/ncurses-5.2.pkg 

OK, thanks -- just grabbed a copy off bebits and installed it but it still
doesn't build.

MF> There appear to be a number of problems in scrnutil.h but not being
MF> a programmer, I don't know how to fix them. Any help/suggestions
MF> would be appreciated.

 ac> BeOS seems to be missing some functions that attach.c and dirlist.c
 ac> use, but I did manage to get it to build and run by commenting some
 ac> of the code out.  

Yeah, so I've noticed ;-)

 ac> I must admit it looked quite nice running inside
 ac> a Terminal window.  :-)

Yes it does :-)

 ac> You can grab the binary (tested under BeOS/i386 5.0) at
 ac> http://blizzard.dnsalias.org/fidonet/timed/timEd-1.11.a4-BeOS.tar.gz

Got it, thanks.

 ac> Note that I really didn't spend enough time porting it properly, so
 ac> it may crash or freeze, but it seemed to work fine in my limited
 ac> testing, reading and writing mail to a Squish base using the
 ac> internal editor.  

No problems here so far :-)

 ac> When I have time I may have a closer look at the
 ac> code and do a proper job of it.

That would be nice and I look forward to seeing the fruits of your labours.
Many thanks indeed for your efforts so far -- much appreciated.

Regards,
Martin

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