Text 5617, 33 rader
Skriven 2006-04-05 05:48:34 av mark lewis (1:3634/12)
   Kommentar till text 5615 av Stephen Haffly (1:396/45.27)
Ärende: PPoint in Linux
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 SH> Since there isn't an equivalent of Professional Point for
 SH> Linux, and I am not yet willing to tackle setting up
 SH> multiple programs to do what I am easily doing with PPoint,
 SH> I am searching for a viable way to continue using PPoint.

 SH> Is it possible to run PPoint and IREX in either BOCHS or
 SH> DOSEMU or another emulator and have it link properly with
 SH> IREX, either in DOS or Linux flavor, to have it connect
 SH> for ftp transfers like I have been doing with the DOS
 SH> version of PPoint and the OS/2 version of IREX for the
 SH> past few years?  Has anyone got a similar setup working?

i do not have IREX at all but it shouldn't be a problem once you get everything
set up... i'd use DOSEMU for ppoint and then set up "shared" directories for
both ppoint and irex to use for the mail... the only possible problem that i
can think of, ATM, is that the linux IREX may look for directories like

 /home/shaffly/mail/in
 /home/shaffly/mail/out

whereas ppoint may look for them as

 \home\shaffly\mail\in
 \home\shaffly\mail\out

if you are using the BSO format of FTN mail transfers, this could cause a
problem in the ?LO files... it should be easy enough to craft a script that
would change "\" to "/" and reverse when necessary, _if_ it is needed... you
may not have this problem at all...

)\/(ark

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