zz: Your Win32 achievement

[Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

My great thanks.

Best wishes, Ted


At 07:40 PM 4/4/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Andrew Pam wrote:
>> 
>> A patch would be very useful, since we could then include that with the
>> source.  A ready-to-run Zip would also be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!
>> 
>Included:- 3 files.
>
>a diff for "zigzag" called pl.diff and a diff for "zigzag.pm" called
>pm.diff.  These were made using verion 0.68 of Zigzag.  Also included is
>a small text file with a reminder of what you need to make this run on a
>Win32 system.
>
>These files can also be found at http://www.meply.demon.co.uk/zigzag.htm
>Here you'll also find ready patched versions of the scripts.
>
>I'm not sure how usefull a diff file will be to most Win 32 users as
>they don't usually have access to patch tools.
>
>I've got myself a copy of the activestate build of perl for win32.  I
>think it will become the preferred (and possibly the only) build of perl
>for Win32 now that Gurusamy Sarathy actually works for activestate. 
>I'll be seeing what you have to do to get Zigzag working under that
>version.
>
>Sorry this took so long, but I don't have a PC at the moment.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Andy.30a31
>> #
>67c68
>< use POSIX;
>---
>> #use POSIX;
>69c70
>< 
>---
>> use IO::Seekable;
>92c93
>< my $TEMP_FILE = "/tmp/zigzag-$<-$^T"; # Filename used for external editing
>---
>> my $TEMP_FILE = "c:\\windows\\temp\\zigzag-$<-$^T"; # Filename used for
external editing
>628c629
><   erase($win) unless $preview;
>---
>>   erase($win);
>823c824
><     { display_status_draw(NULL); }
>---
>>     { display_status_draw(''); }
>841,842c842,844
><   my $key_pressed = input_get_any();
><   my $i;
>---
>>   my ($i,$key_pressed);
>>   for ($i = 0; $i <= $#Window_Dirty; $i++) { display_draw_window($i,
defined($key_pressed)); }
>>   $key_pressed = input_get_any();
>848c850
><     { display_status_draw(NULL); }
>---
>>     { display_status_draw(''); }
>74c74
>< package Zigzag;
>---
>> package ZigzagWin32;
>134c134
>< use POSIX;
>---
>> #use POSIX;
>137a138
>> use IO::Seekable;
>This is a version of Zigzag that will run on Windows 95, 98, NT, etc.
>
>This version has been written for the Gurusamy Sarathy build of perl [1] and
>you'll also need his build of DB_file [2] installed.
>
>ZigzagWin32 Assumes that your temporary folder is in "c:\windows\temp".
>
>Remember to set the EDITOR enviroment variable before running zigzag,
>the default text editor "edit" works very well.
>
>Have Fun,
>
>Andy. (andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>
>[1]
>ftp://ftp.iguide.com/pub/mirrors/packages/perl/CPAN/ports/win95/Standard/x8
>6/perl5.00402-bindist04-bc.zip
>[2]
>ftp://ftp.iguide.com/pub/mirrors/packages/perl/CPAN/ports/win95/Standard/x8
>6/DB_File-1.54-bin-v3-x86-mswin32-bc.zip
>
>
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