[Elecraft] K3Util and P3Util Error: Help System encountered a problem. [Linux Ubuntu 10.04]

[Larry J on Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop]

David,

Bummer.    That wasn't the answer I was hoping for.  I agree conversion from the proprietary development environment would be, at the very least, difficult and, worse yet,  probably not something I am capable of doing.  Thanks for your reply and explanation.

For benefit of others who may pass this way,  I did discover that I can create something similar to a help file by opening my Chrome browser on the file K3Util.htm located in the folder Help-K3.   So, for example, in my browser address space (where the http:// address usually goes)  I inserted "file:///home/lj/Desktop/K3/Help-K3/K3Util.htm"  This mostly works but is missing a diagram or two which you have to fish out yourself.  This would probably work on the P3Util package also.   Not a well integrated solution but a work around while we wait for Real Studio to support 64bits.

Larry  W0AY

  On 01/11/2012 10:46 AM, David Fleming wrote:
> The Linux versions of the Utilities share the same source code with the Mac versions. They are developed and maintained on the Mac using Real Studio. Real Studio provides cross-compilation for Mac and Linux (and Windows). Real Studio does not yet support 64-bit Linux. So until it does, I have no way of providing 64-bit. If someone would like to take on the task of porting all of the Utilities to native Linux, I'm sure it could be arranged. But it would be a *massive* project. The Elecraft Utilities are not trivial apps. They have been in development for years. I'm not sure that investing the time and effort necessary would be worth it - just to get a 64-bit binary. The 32-bit versions works just fine on 64-bit as long as the 32-bit compatibility libraries are installed.
>
> David, W4SMT
>
> --- On Wed, 1/11/12, Larry J on his Dell LT<larry at foxgulch.com>  wrote:
>
>> I agree 100 percent with
>> Pierfrancesco!!! (See excerpt below)   If I
>> had a native 64 bit binary for the Elecraft P3/ K3
>> Utility,  I wouldn't have to come begging here. 
>> After all, I just spent  more than $4000 on this
>> hardware.   Better yet,  Elecraft: 
>> Open the  source your dam Utilities  and I'll
>> compile my own.
>>
>> Elecraft:  I'm willing to go  NDA  so that
>> you could provide source for the P3/K3 utilities to me, I'll
>> compile, maintain,  and package  64 bit
>> versions  and put it in a PPA for all to access
>> freely.  No charge to you.  Let me know.
>>
>> Larry W0AY
>>
>> On 01/10/2012 11:37 PM, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
>>> Now, it's 2012, can we*pleeeeease*  have a native
>> 64 bit version of the
>>> utility? And also a standalone html or pdf copy of the
>> help file,
>>> pointing the browser to the Help directory gives a lot
>> of broken links.
>>> Pf
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