SignWriter 4.4 on Linux

Trevor Jenkins Trevor.Jenkins at SUNEIDESIS.COM
Sun May 19 14:33:45 UTC 2002


On Sun, 19 May 2002, Valerie Sutton wrote:

> >>  Trevor wrote:  A more elegant solution would be to recompile SignWriter 4.4 for
> >>  Linux. Either of FreePascal or gpc would probably do.
>
> But regarding re-programming SignWriter DOS, I appreciate the
> idealistic idea, Trevor, but it will be harder than you expect, and
> meanwhile, as Stuart says, with DOS emulators we can use SignWriter
> DOS on almost every operating system. And now that we are working on
> newer programs, I think it is better to keep the DOS program as it is
> - it is working fine if you have the right equipment!

Presumes that one is prepared to have an MS-DOS (or other) emulator on
your machine. Personally I'm not.
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