Re: [h-e-w] gnuserv on Window

[Michael R . Wolf]

Guy Gascoigne-Piggford <address@hidden> writes:

> Well I have to say that the page hasn't been updated simply because as
> far as I know they are still accurate.  I still use that version of
> gnuclient and  have done pretty solidly since Emacs 19.
>
> And no, I've never bothered testing it with Win9x since I don't use
> it, but I've heard from folks who have managed to use it successfully
> on Win9x - I seem to remember that getting it to run in Win95 took a
> few tweaks since I think that it required certain service packs, but
> if I remember correctly Win 98 and later are very straight forward and
> worked out of the box.
> Well I have to say that the page hasn't been updated simply because as
> far as I know they are still accurate.  I still use that version of
> gnuclient and  have done pretty solidly since Emacs 19.
>
> And no, I've never bothered testing it with Win9x since I don't use
> it, but I've heard from folks who have managed to use it successfully
> on Win9x - I seem to remember that getting it to run in Win95 took a
> few tweaks since I think that it required certain service packs, but
> if I remember correctly Win 98 and later are very straight forward and
> worked out of the box.

Santa's favorite words -- some assembly required.

Forgive me if I'm missing the intuition of Santa's elves, but I don't
know how to take it out of the box. The pre-2000 dates alone would
indicate that there's no INSTALL script (executable or manual) for
Win2K, but even with looking inside the files, I can't find the
assembly instruction. Is it just way too late?

All I want for Christmas is a ....


  c:/opt/gnuserv:
  total 177  free 12926080
  drwxrwxrwx   2 michael  root        0 Dec 21 20:16 .
  drwxrwxrwx   2 michael  root        0 Sep 15 09:45 ..
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     1773 Sep  6  1999 All.dsp
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     4254 Sep  4  1999 GnuServe.dsp
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     2193 Sep  6  1999 GnuServe.dsw
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root    12735 Aug 14  1994 LICENSE
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     1276 Sep  7  1999 Makefile
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     4282 Sep 19  1994 README
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     5040 Sep 11  1999 README.NT
  drwxrwxrwx   2 michael  root        0 Sep 11  1999 Release
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     1174 Sep 11  1999 config.h
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root      814 Aug 14  1994 config.h.proto
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root      766 Feb 24  1999 emacs.ico
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root    22216 Sep  6  1999 getopt.c
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     4438 Jan 27  1996 getopt.h
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root    10423 Sep 11  1999 gnuclient.c
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     4211 Sep 11  1999 gnuclient.dsp
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     4077 Sep 11  1999 gnuclientw.dsp
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     2887 Sep 11  1999 gnuclientw.rc
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     4182 Sep  6  1999 gnudoit.c
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     4086 Sep 11  1999 gnudoit.dsp
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     8043 Sep 22  1994 gnuserv.1
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root    25746 Sep 11  1999 gnuserv.c
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     4090 Sep 11  1999 gnuserv.dsp
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root    18194 Sep 27  1998 gnuserv.el
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     5420 Sep 11  1999 gnuserv.h
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root    10107 Sep  4  1999 gnuserv.html
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root    13620 Sep 10  1999 gnuslib.c
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root     2968 Sep 11  1999 gnuslib.dsp
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root      459 Sep  9  1999 resource.h
  -rw-rw-rw-   1 michael  root      832 Aug 14  1994 src.x11fns.diff

  c:/opt/gnuserv/Release:
  total 208
  drwxrwxrwx   2 michael  root        0 Sep 11  1999 .
  drwxrwxrwx   2 michael  root        0 Dec 21 20:16 ..
  -rwxrwxrwx   1 michael  root    53248 Sep 11  1999 gnuclient.exe
  -rwxrwxrwx   1 michael  root    53248 Sep 11  1999 gnuclientw.exe
  -rwxrwxrwx   1 michael  root    49152 Sep 11  1999 gnudoit.exe
  -rwxrwxrwx   1 michael  root    57344 Sep 11  1999 gnuserv.exe

-- 
Michael R. Wolf
    All mammals learn by playing!
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