1. Linux Dos Euphoria and Llama
Just a few questions here. Will Llama run under Linux yet?
What is the best way to move things between my 3 Gig Win98 Drive and my
1 Gig SCSI Linux drive? I am using Lilo as my Boot Strap. I am going
to be developing a Windows version and Linux version of EAGLE at the
same time, and need to find the best way to copy between OS's, Also I am
in the process of converting my VideoLib program to Llama from Win32 and
hope to be able to port that to Linux as well.
Thanks In Advance,
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2. Re: Linux Dos Euphoria and Llama
Ferlin
If you go to any Simtel site I think you will find TAR for PC DOS
Then I think you can move back and forth using floppies in the TAR
format which is a universal format.
But you better check with one of the Linuc grui.
Bernie
3. Re: Linux Dos Euphoria and Llama
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> Just a few questions here. Will Llama run under Linux yet?
> What is the best way to move things between my 3 Gig Win98 Drive and my
> 1 Gig SCSI Linux drive? I am using Lilo as my Boot Strap. I am going
> to be developing a Windows version and Linux version of EAGLE at the
> same time, and need to find the best way to copy between OS's, Also I am
> in the process of converting my VideoLib program to Llama from Win32 and
> hope to be able to port that to Linux as well.
Hi,
The easiest way is to mount the Win98 drive in Linux as, perhaps,
/dos. You can then work with the files just like any on the Linux partition.
as root, do this:
cd /
mkdir /dos
mount -tvfat /dev/hda1 /dos
You can make an entry into your /etc/fstab file like the following
(dba1 is assuming DOS/WIN is on the C: drive, first partition)
so that the /dos partition will be available on bootup.
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /dos vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
Note that Linux will read and write (given adequate permissions) DOS and
Windows files just fine. Windows can't reciprocate, unfortunately.
Regards,
Irv
4. Re: Linux Dos Euphoria and Llama
It was a dark and stormy night when Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Bernie Ryan wrote:
> Ferlin
> If you go to any Simtel site I think you will find TAR for PC DOS
> Then I think you can move back and forth using floppies in the TAR
> format which is a universal format.
> But you better check with one of the Linuc grui.
> Bernie
Linux formats, reads and writes DOS format disks just fine.
Also, there's a zip program which is compatible with PKZIP.
If you're using KDE, just open Archiver, click File/New, type in
whatever.zip as the filename, and drop files or directories into
the archiver window. Save and you're done.
Irv
5. Re: Linux Dos Euphoria and Llama
Thanks to ALL who helped with the Linux/DOS issue, Greg Harris was the
first to reply in private email, he suggested the same as others about
creating a DOS file system and mount it. I did just that under After
Step and was able to copy from my DOS to my Linux with no problems, I am
using Red Hat 5.2 and I used unzip to unzip the files, the only thing
was all the files in my zip unziped with Upper Case letters and I had to
mv them to lower case in order for exu to find them since I had used
lower case in my include commands. Again THANKS to all who responded.
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6. Re: Linux Dos Euphoria and Llama
Ferlin Scarborough wondered:
> Will Llama run under Linux yet?
No, there are quite a number of things that need to happen first:
1. I need to get my machine working properly. It seems like all my time on
the computer has been spent fiddling trying to get the hardware to work
again. Grrrr...
2. XLib wrappers need to be written. Robert has announced that the latest
version talks to XLib, and Pete posted an example he had made for Peu, which
also runs under Linux and links to DLLs. But the XLib functions, data
structures and macros need to be wrapped before they can be called from
Euphoria - and there are tons of them. The function calls and data
structures are fairly simple. But the macros are *scary* - Pete basically
had to decompile C code to get his macros working.
3. I have to learn XLib programming. It doesn't look that difficult, but
it's not something that will happen overnight. I expect to spend a lot of
time being frustrated with a lot of basic things.
4. Llamma classes need to be ported - primarily Drawable, Pixmap and Window.
This won't happen until the wrappers are coded.
5. Emulated control classes need to be finished. This is probably the most
difficult part. Because of licensing restrictions, C++ library dependance,
and so on, I've decided that the best plan is to write the controls myself.
As you can imagine, this will entail a lot of work. I hope to farm it out to
other people, but that portion of the library is not ready for prime time
yet.
Other than that, it's ready to go! 
-- David Cuny
7. Re: Linux Dos Euphoria and Llama
"Cuny, David" wrote:
> Other than that, it's ready to go!
>
> -- David Cuny
Looks like you have a busy WEEKEND ahead of you?
Just kidding, I appreciate ALL the work you have put into Euphoria
Libraries and other programs, and I'm sure a lot of other appreciate it
as well. Looking forward to playing with Linux and converting my
programs. I hope to spend some time this weekend on EAGLE and VIDEOLIB,
maybe just maybe I'll have something to release to the public for
critic, very shortly.
Later,
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