[Lowfer] Re: Lowfer digest, Vol 1 #192 - 3 msgs

[David Willmore]

> > David N0YMV wrote: Oh, to ammend my first post,
> > the WOLF code runs just fine under Linux, windows
> > is *not* a requirement.  If it runs under Linux,
> > there's no reason it shouldn't run on any other UNIX.
> > Does that make anyone other than me happy?
> 
> I'm curious, will the new code run on a Mac using os X which is unix based?

You know, I don't see why not.  I *don't do* MAC programming, but several
of the net based projects that I'm afiliated with are portable to MAC OSX,
so I can make a rough guess and say yes, but you may need what they call
the 'compatibility' libraries installed.  I have no idea what the means,
but if you know a MAC programmer, it probably means something to them.

WOLF doesn't use anything fancy, so it's not hard to port.  I've made it
a bit more UNIX friendly--and more portable to other architectures by
removing internal references to a hand entered value of PI and replacing
them with symbols from math.h.  M_PI, M_2PI, etc.  Might make a difference
with PPC floating point--in the least signifigant digit. ;)

If anyone out there is an OSX programmer, want to take a shot at it?  If
you can compile the current code, no reason you couldn't compile it once
I'm done.  Hmmm, I've looked at AltaVec a little (I used to work for the
branch of Motorola that it was *designed* for. :) ).  I'm quite sure it
could be used to speed up processing.

Thanks for bringing this point up.  It reminds me to ask a question:

Anyone want to write a GUI for this?  Anyone want to incorporate it into
an existing GUI?  I'm not a GUI kind of GUY and this could sure use one. :)

Cheers,
David N0YMV