zz: PC development-- that'll be a browser window

[Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

========= Dialog between Mark Oeltjenbruns and Andrew Pam:
>> I tried to get it working under a Windows perl version but wasn't
>> successful, any plans on porting to Windows/Dos system?
>
>Yes.

Actually, the current plan is to "port" merely by
 outputting our brick-mode windows (what you see now)
 to Netscape.  This is our highest priority.  

Andrew, how's that coming?

(Mark, do you do Perl?)

Best, Ted


At 11:25 PM 10/12/98 +1000, you wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 08:03:23AM -0500, Mark Oeltjenbruns wrote:
>> Just to double check my problem, I  formatted a disk and tried it again.
>> Same thing happened.  I got the Save prompt, put in fresh disk, it clicked
>> and whirled a while, a 'see www.xanadu... for more info' came up with a
>> bunch of # #  # # >> # # > > on the bottom with the disk light staying on.
>
>Then it should have correctly saved, exited and halted the system.
>Have you looked at the contents of the disk?
>
>> Tried rebooting to Zigzag and load the dataset but it flashed up a brief
>> message I think saying it couldn't open the file or something.  This is the
>> same thing that happened on my home system.  Only tried on two systems
since
>> I got the same thing to happen on both.
>
>Hmmm.  Not sure why it didn't load - could you check what's on the disk?
>
>> I tried to get it working under a Windows perl version but wasn't
>> successful, any plans on porting to Windows/Dos system?
>
>Yes.
>
>Cheers,
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