On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 11:50:46AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > Thanks to Jason Winningham, the Xastir virtual machine I made for use in > VMware player is now available for download > > Details are in the Wiki: > > http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/HowTo:VMware
John Ronan has also provided download bandwidth for the other side of the puddle. This detail, among others, is now on the Wiki. I've been expanding the VMware documentation on the wiki as much as I can in limited time, and I think it gives a fairly complete picture of how to get Xastir started on Windows under VMware player in a short time. If you have any interest in running Xastir on windows without Cygwin, please check it out. I'm keenly interested in the sorts of glitches that windows users have when using it -- we already found some and I've tried to document troubleshooting and work-arounds on the Wiki. I converted one former local xastir user from Cygwin to VMware on Thursday. He reports that the VMware version is markedly faster on his machines than Cygwin ever was, and much less of a pain to use --- map redraws are notably faster. Also, by using Xastir under Linux through VMware, he now has access to GPS track downloads through GPSMan --- since gpsmanshp won't work under Cygwin, this is the first time he's been able to get at that capability. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
