Re: Preaching DSSSL (Re: using LOUT)

[Pieter J. Kersten]

On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> Peter da Silva writes:
>  > > what about the worlds most common environments, from the Satan
>  > > of Seattle?
>  > 
>  > MS-DOS lout will run under it. IT'S BATCH. You don't need a fancy GUI.
> which of `it'? they, surely.
>  > 
>  > Yeesh.
> 
> who said anything about a GUI? I was thinking of a native win32
> version, not something that fires up a DOS session. the Jade backend
> needs to talk to a running lout directly
> 
> sebastian
> 
> 

I compiled Lout succesfully (I think) on NT using GNU-Win32. However I
found out that Lout's database functionality did not work as expected. 
When I played around a bit I noticed that a different version compiled on
HP/UX 10.x derived different results from the same source. It had taken
too much time for me already so I had to give up.  

Perhaps someone else can explain the malfunctioning under NT and/or the
differences between HP/UX and Win32. 

Pieter J. Kersten
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