[GreenKeys] Speed Converters

[W8MAQ at aol.com]

Bill,
 
Thank you for your informative reply. I will download from the links and  
install in XP Pro first and let you know how I get along. Thanks again.
 
73 Jim W8MAQ
 
 
 
In a message dated 6/17/2006 7:57:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
teletype at buzbee.net writes:

Jim,
Recent versions of HeavyMetal, both the perl and  stand-alone executable,
should work just fine on Windows 2K/XP.  In  fact, I no longer even have any
older Windows systems around to test on so  development is done mostly on my
Windows XP laptop.  The latest stable  version is:

V1.27:  <http://www.buzbee.net/heavymetal/hm_1_27.zip>

Try it out  and let me know if you have any problems.  Note that the
"readme" file  talks about having to install a separate utility program to
support direct  access to your serial ports.  This is no longer the case.  I
left  these instructions (and code) in there for now, but it all should work
"out  of the box".  Just download the .zip file, unzip it and double-click  on
HeavyMetal.exe.

Let me know if you have any problems  with it,

...Bill 

P.S.  Note that there is a  problem with heavymetal.pl when running on a
Linux system.  I made  what I thought were "windows-only" changes that broke
the Linux  version.  The code is fixed in the current experimental  version
at:

V.128 (experimental)  <http://www.buzbee.net/heavymetal/hm_1_28.zip>



>  -----Original Message-----
> From: W8MAQ at aol.com [mailto:W8MAQ at aol.com]  
> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 4:20 PM
> To:  greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Speed  Converters
> 
>  
> Bill and all,
>   
> Is  there any possibility of an incarnation of HeavyMetal  
> that will  run on a 
> computer with a modern operating  system? No offense intended, 
> but I  don't 
> know how to  install a PERL environment on my XP or Win2K 
> systems, and I'd   try 
> to avoid running Win95 which the Windows executable  requires.
>  
> I'd love to experiment with and enjoy  HeavyMetal and its 
> features, but  when 
> I contemplate  getting it up and running, I always run into 
> the operating   
> system hurdle.
>  
> Thank you all for your good  works and support TTY machines.
>  
> 73's
> Jim Young  W8MAQ
>  
> 
> Andreas,
> I'm not sure if it will  be of any use to you,  but I'm 
> currently finishing
> up an  enhancement to HeavyMetal which will  allow control and 
>  connection via
> TCP ports.  The main use was to  support a  scenerio in which 
> you've got a PC
> (with possibly multiple  serial  ports) with one or more instances of
> HeavyMetal running,  each one  controlling a teletype machine 
> via a serial
>  port.  Each of those  instances of HeavyMetal would then be 
>  listening on a
> port for incoming  connections.
> In this  model, you could then communicate with  one of your teletype
>  machines remotely via a telnet client, or even another  instance  of
> HeavyMetal, on a remote computer.  This doesn't  completely  
> solve the problem
> of newer machines not  having serial ports, but the idea  is 
> that you dedicate
>  an old computer to manage the serial port connection  with 
> your  teletype
> machine[s] and then you could use your modern computer   to 
> remotely control
> it.
> If anyone is interested in  helping  me test it out (and 
> suggest features),
> let me  know. 
> ...Bill  Buzbee
> 
> 
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