Roy Lewallen wrote:

EZNEC is now able to run under Linux using the wine emulator. EZNEC
version 4.0.34 (the current version) or later is required.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

great Roy, but do us all a favor and port it out to linux so we dont have to
play with wine to use it.

Cebu_Charlie wrote:

great Roy, but do us all a favor and port it out to linux so we dont have to
play with wine to use it.

I'm sure you're a cool guy and all, but I'm not about to spend a couple
of years of full time to do you a favor so you won't have to fool with
wine. Sometimes it's just a tough world.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

In article , Roy Lewallen
wrote:

Cebu_Charlie wrote:

great Roy, but do us all a favor and port it out to linux so we dont have to
play with wine to use it.

I'm sure you're a cool guy and all, but I'm not about to spend a couple
of years of full time to do you a favor so you won't have to fool with
wine. Sometimes it's just a tough world.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Hello, Roy, and all. I have used a g77-compiled version of NEC-4 on a
Linux platform and it worked fine. The GNU compiler works with FORTRAN-77
source code as well as C. I assume a g77 compilation of the NEC-2 source
code would also work. Of course this is just number-crunching NEC that
does not provide the other bells and whistles of EZNEC. Sincerely, and
73s from N4GGO,

John Wood (Code 5550) e-mail:
Naval Research Laboratory
4555 Overlook Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20375-5337

Recompiling Fortran code which has no interaction with the user other
than getting text input from one file and writing text output to another
is a vastly different problem than re-writing a 60,000 line Visual Basic
interactive graphical user interface in another language then
recompiling for Linux while retaining full functionality of all
features. The difference between the two problems seems to escape a lot
of people, but problems do always look easier to solve when it's someone
else's job to solve them.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

J. B. Wood wrote:
In article , Roy Lewallen
wrote:

Cebu_Charlie wrote:
great Roy, but do us all a favor and port it out to linux so we dont have to
play with wine to use it.
I'm sure you're a cool guy and all, but I'm not about to spend a couple
of years of full time to do you a favor so you won't have to fool with
wine. Sometimes it's just a tough world.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Hello, Roy, and all. I have used a g77-compiled version of NEC-4 on a
Linux platform and it worked fine. The GNU compiler works with FORTRAN-77
source code as well as C. I assume a g77 compilation of the NEC-2 source
code would also work. Of course this is just number-crunching NEC that
does not provide the other bells and whistles of EZNEC. Sincerely, and
73s from N4GGO,

John Wood (Code 5550) e-mail:
Naval Research Laboratory
4555 Overlook Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20375-5337

Amen.

Jim



"Roy Lewallen" wrote in message
...

but problems do always look easier to solve when it's someone
else's job to solve them.


Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Roy Lewallen wrote:

Recompiling Fortran code which has no interaction with the user other
than getting text input from one file and writing text output to another
is a vastly different problem than re-writing a 60,000 line Visual Basic
interactive graphical user interface in another language then
recompiling for Linux while retaining full functionality of all
features. The difference between the two problems seems to escape a lot
of people, but problems do always look easier to solve when it's someone
else's job to solve them.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

J. B. Wood wrote:
In article , Roy Lewallen
wrote:

Cebu_Charlie wrote:
great Roy, but do us all a favor and port it out to linux so we dont
have to play with wine to use it.
I'm sure you're a cool guy and all, but I'm not about to spend a couple
of years of full time to do you a favor so you won't have to fool with
wine. Sometimes it's just a tough world.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Hello, Roy, and all. I have used a g77-compiled version of NEC-4 on a
Linux platform and it worked fine. The GNU compiler works with
FORTRAN-77
source code as well as C. I assume a g77 compilation of the NEC-2 source
code would also work. Of course this is just number-crunching NEC that
does not provide the other bells and whistles of EZNEC. Sincerely, and
73s from N4GGO,

John Wood (Code 5550) e-mail:
Naval Research Laboratory
4555 Overlook Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20375-5337


Recompiling Visual Basic code in Linux is simpler now as Mono is VB
compatible! And free of course...

So if someone sits on the VB code for EZNEC, just rebuild it .Mono on Linux
BUT LINK IT STATICALLY! This means the code will run on almost all varietys
of Linux!

//Dan, M0DFI

Dan Andersson wrote:

...
So if someone sits on the VB code for EZNEC, just rebuild it .Mono on Linux
BUT LINK IT STATICALLY! This means the code will run on almost all varietys
of Linux!

//Dan, M0DFI

My gawd man. Let us hope no serious program is ever written in Visual
Basic!

Oh, I forgot, some idiots did do that, didn't they?

JS

John Smith I wrote:
Dan Andersson wrote:

...

So if someone sits on the VB code for EZNEC, just rebuild it .Mono on
Linux
BUT LINK IT STATICALLY! This means the code will run on almost all
varietys
of Linux!

//Dan, M0DFI


My gawd man. Let us hope no serious program is ever written in Visual
Basic!

Oh, I forgot, some idiots did do that, didn't they?

JS

eeah, just another structured programing language.

The latest seems to be 'D'.

A statically linked program, particularly one which is object based,
would result in a hefty sized binary. But it would work.

Chris

John Smith I writes:

Dan Andersson wrote:

...
So if someone sits on the VB code for EZNEC, just rebuild it .Mono on Linux
BUT LINK IT STATICALLY! This means the code will run on almost all varietys
of Linux!
//Dan, M0DFI

My gawd man. Let us hope no serious program is ever written in Visual
Basic!

Oh, I forgot, some idiots did do that, didn't they?

I don't think that was called for.

We may like Linux, but programming just for Windows doesn't make
somebody an idiot.

73 de LA4RT Jon, Trondheim, Norway

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:30:29 -0800, Roy Lewallen wrote:

Cebu_Charlie wrote:

great Roy, but do us all a favor and port it out to linux so we dont have
to
play with wine to use it.

I'm sure you're a cool guy and all, but I'm not about to spend a couple
of years of full time to do you a favor so you won't have to fool with
wine. Sometimes it's just a tough world.

Understood, Roy.

Besides being an emulator/program loader, Wine also has winelib which is
intended as a way to recompile Windows applications for Linux (and other Free
Unix systems like BSD, etc.) so they can run natively. This would avoid a
complete porting effort.

73, de Nate

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