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Re: Request for testing - Gradient Rectangle

• Posted by jbrown1050 at hotpop.com Feb 02, 2003
• 511 views

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 02:30:54PM -0600, gertie at visionsix.com wrote:
> 
> On 2 Feb 2003, at 15:26, Martin Stachon wrote:
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> Missing include files.
> 
> > But the dll errors are bacause
> > you haven't got msimg32.dll (as Wolf said). I will probably also put in an
> > emulation routine for Win95 to draw the gradient using lines (as in my
> > Towers of
> > Hanoi demo), but, win32lib already does not work well with Win95, 
> 
> Which explains why i keep the old versions.

Sheesh! Win95 is Win32, I can understand adding features to win32lib that
enhance it for newer versions of Windoze, but it should also work for the
older versions (minus enhancements of course).

IMHO, the fact that Win32lib doesn't run under Win95 would seem ludicrous to
me ... but I'm betting there aren't any developers of Win32lib who use
Win95 regularly. (Instead of editing win32lib to work on vanilla win95,
perhaps a set of dlls could be included/linked to which are needed to get
win32lib to run but arent part of win95 by default?)

> 
> > and anyway,
> > who is using Win95 these days ? ;)
> 
> Me. Go ahead and laugh. I don't see the humor. I was able to get win95 from 
> the last geek i met in real life, in 1996. I haven't known anyone in real life
> who
> could do more than turn on the computer since then, so i haven't seen a 
> working OS other than mine. Since i can't get anyone to help online with nix, 
> and no one in real life can help, i'll stick with win95 till something better 
> comes along. I tried DRdos, it wouldn't install, and they wanted $500 for the 
> source code. So you guys go ahead and write code that won't run on win95, 
> everyone else is, including trojan and virus writers. 
> 
> Kat

LOL on that bit about trojan&virus writers.

I used Windows 95 onces, I found the Win9x line of OSes to be the very worst
of OSes. (Its hard to fault M$ entirely on this, however, their choice of
making 9x a mixed 32/16bit OS was asking to make it extremely bug prone.)
WinNT is quite better, but also much more expensive. (2k = NT 5.0, XP = 5.1,
btw, they are part of the NT line.)

If you still want to learn linux on your own, try going to www.linux.org or
www.linux.com and browsing thru the docs on the sites. (A hint: Linux might
not work perfectly on the lastest hardware, but it tends to run great
on boxes 5 years old which sell really cheap.)

Also, Cygwin (which should work on Win95, at least it did 2 years ago
when I tried it) provides a Unix layer under Windows. You can practice
ls, rm, cp, mv, mc, bash script shells, etc. within the confort of Windows
if you wish ... however, Cygwin is still experimental and buggy, so
if you use it at all keep that in mind.

Not Sure If That Helps,
jbrown

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