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to: Wes Garland
from: Russell Tiedt
date: 2003-06-22 21:47:58
subject: Maximus on Linux

Hello Wes.

19 Jun 03 19:04, you wrote to me:

 RT>> Is/are there options to compile maximus/squish for
 RT>> a mono vga enviroment, or
 RT>> at least use colours that don't just "disappear" on a mono vga
 RT>> screen?

 WG> Your best bet is to run an xterm without colour capability. That is
 WG> the default on most UNIX systems.

Not running X, just console mode, not sure how/or whether X will work with 
the mono VGA monitor, I know the VGA card will, besides, for the most part, I 
am happy running in console mode.

 RT>> PS. took me three attempts to download the
 RT>> max*tar.gz files, they tended to
 RT>> wait until 67% to 83% download and then just bombeb out.

 WG> Argh; you may have been trying at the time my ISP was dropping
 WG> connections last weekend. One of the processor modules in their Shasta
 WG> went tango uniform.

Uhm ... not nice when that happens ...

 WG> You can also get the tar files from the file releases page on
 WG> SourceForge.

Got them, and compiled the, Squish seems to work, but no luck with Maximus 
yet.

Russell

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