SignWriter 4.4 on Linux

Stuart Thiessen smt_sw at HOTMAIL.COM
Fri May 17 21:50:41 UTC 2002


While this doesn't apply to Windows XP, it is still good news.  I installed
SuSE Linux 7.3 (one of the various distributions of Linux) on my home
computer.  I also installed dosemu which is a DOS emulator for Linux.
SignWriter appeared to work quite well.  I haven't done an exhaustive test
of it, but it seems to work well!  So that means that SignWriter should work
with Linux on the Intel platform for sure.  I am not sure if dosemu still
works on Linux for the PowerPC or other hardware.

>>From what I can tell from the man pages installed on my system, this is
dosemu 1.0.2 dated May 2001.  There may be a more current version of dosemu
at ftp://ftp.dosemu.org.  Again, this is for Linux systems with at least a
2.0.x kernel.

Stuart Thiessen

>From: Valerie Sutton <Sutton at SIGNWRITING.ORG>
>Reply-To: SignWriting List <SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA>
>To: SW-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA
>Subject: Re: QUESTION: SignWriter 4.4 on Windows
>Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 15:47:36 -0700
>
>SignWriting List
>May 15, 2002
>
>>Jerry Spillman wrote:
>>I have had a system difficulty recently that requires an upgrade, and I
>>will be running XP after this coming weekend.  I will need to run
>>SignWriter 4.4 and Sign Bank on this system, so will share the required
>>tweaks with you in order to make that happen.
>
>Hello Jerry and Everyone!
>This is great news about Windows XP...if it can run DOS we are very
>fortunate!

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