EZNEC is now able to run under Linux using the wine emulator. EZNEC
version 4.0.34 (the current version) or later is required.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Roy Lewallen wrote:
EZNEC is now able to run under Linux using the wine emulator. EZNEC
version 4.0.34 (the current version) or later is required.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Wonderful! Thanks Roy.

Is there a faq on your site or anyone elses?

Now only if Pegasus mail had a linux version I could dump this crummy OS
once and for all.

tom
K0TAR

Roy Lewallen wrote:

EZNEC is now able to run under Linux using the wine emulator. EZNEC
version 4.0.34 (the current version) or later is required.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

great Roy, but do us all a favor and port it out to linux so we dont have to
play with wine to use it.

In article ,
Roy Lewallen wrote:

EZNEC is now able to run under Linux using the wine emulator. EZNEC
version 4.0.34 (the current version) or later is required.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

That's great news. Now does anyone know whether it will run under
CrossOver (the CodeWeavers implementation of WINE for Intel Macs)? That
would give me an excuse for upgrading from a year 2001 G4 PowerPC
Macintosh to a year 2007 Intel Macintosh. Mac OS X is to a large extent
based on the BSD variety of UNIX.

I know that the CodeWeavers people have mainly concentrated on getting
things like the Windows versions of the Micro$loth Office suite of
programs to run under CrossOver, the point of which escapes me since
Office has been around for Macs even longer than it has for Windows
machines and thus Mac users are under no pressure to be able to use the
Windows versions of the Office programs. (Word and Excel files are, for
the most part, platform-independent, or at least are easily translatable
between Windows and Mac formats. I frequently turn Mac Word 5.1a files
into Windows XP Word files to give to my daughter, and do the reverse
when she sends me Word files. Such translation is easily done on a Mac,
and with some difficulty can be done on a Windows machine.)

Ironically if I were to get an Intel Mac, one of the programs I could no
longer use is the lean, mean 1992 Mac version of MS Word 5.1a, still
working nicely after 15 years on my year 2001 computer. This program
runs faster and better under Classic (i.e. Mac OS 9) within Mac OS X
than it ever did in the old days. Two layers of emulation are going on
here -- OS X is emulating OS 9, and the PowerPC version of OS 9 is
emulating a 680x0 CPU on a PPC chip (G5, G4, G3, or earlier) -- Word 5
was written before the days of the PPC chips. Classic is not readily
available for Intel Macs (there are semi-satisfactory hacks which make
it sort of work).

David, ex-W8EZE

--
David Ryeburn

To send e-mail, use "ca" instead of "caz".

Tom Ring wrote:

...
Now only if Pegasus mail had a linux version I could dump this crummy OS
once and for all.

tom
K0TAR

WINE Pegasus ...

http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/pmail-wine.html


JS

Tom Ring wrote:

Wonderful! Thanks Roy.

Is there a faq on your site or anyone elses?

Not anything regarding use on Linux. The version that's capable of
running on a Linux emulator has been available only about one day, and
as far as I know only one person has tested it on that system.

. . .

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Cebu_Charlie wrote:

great Roy, but do us all a favor and port it out to linux so we dont have to
play with wine to use it.

I'm sure you're a cool guy and all, but I'm not about to spend a couple
of years of full time to do you a favor so you won't have to fool with
wine. Sometimes it's just a tough world.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

David Ryeburn wrote:

That's great news. Now does anyone know whether it will run under
CrossOver (the CodeWeavers implementation of WINE for Intel Macs)? That
would give me an excuse for upgrading from a year 2001 G4 PowerPC
Macintosh to a year 2007 Intel Macintosh. Mac OS X is to a large extent
based on the BSD variety of UNIX.

The demo program is free, at http://eznec.com. While there's a small
possibility that the full program would fail on a system that can run
the demo, it's not likely. So anybody wanting to know about a particular
system should just download the demo and try it.

I know that all EZNEC program types have been run successfully on Macs
for many years using the SoftWindows emulator.

Ironically, the change to EZNEC which made it able to run on Linux was
made in order to make it work under Microsoft Vista.

. . .

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

In article , Roy Lewallen
wrote:

Cebu_Charlie wrote:

great Roy, but do us all a favor and port it out to linux so we dont have to
play with wine to use it.

I'm sure you're a cool guy and all, but I'm not about to spend a couple
of years of full time to do you a favor so you won't have to fool with
wine. Sometimes it's just a tough world.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Hello, Roy, and all. I have used a g77-compiled version of NEC-4 on a
Linux platform and it worked fine. The GNU compiler works with FORTRAN-77
source code as well as C. I assume a g77 compilation of the NEC-2 source
code would also work. Of course this is just number-crunching NEC that
does not provide the other bells and whistles of EZNEC. Sincerely, and
73s from N4GGO,

John Wood (Code 5550) e-mail:
Naval Research Laboratory
4555 Overlook Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20375-5337

Ya know, older Pentiums can be had for a song at flea markets,
Salvation army, church donation sites, etc.. And are free from trash
bins, and curbsides - especially near the local college at the end of
every semester...

An older pentium may take a few more seconds to crunch your Eznec
design compared to some 3GHZ screamer, but that gives you time to
think (and scratch) whilst waiting...


So as opposed to spending thousands on a new Mac, how about getting an
Eznec box for cheap...

denny