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| 2 | The Paper Tape Project - Using Windows |
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| 5 | Most work at the paper tape project was performed on Unix operating |
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| 6 | systems (like Linux). With their powerful shells its quite easy |
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| 7 | to perform various operations like transforming ASCII hex code files |
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| 8 | to binary files, truncate or add null bytes, generate bit musters |
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| 9 | (e.g. as paper tape labels or for testing purposes) and read in |
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| 10 | or punch out, because you can concate simply every program with |
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| 11 | every else - following the Unix philosophy: |
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| 13 | * Write programs that do one thing and do it well. |
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| 14 | * Write programs to work together. |
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| 15 | * Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a |
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| 16 | universal interface |
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| 17 | (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy) |
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| 19 | Microsoft Windows doesn't follow this philosophy, and therefore |
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| 20 | it's not comfortable at all while working in the Paper Tape Project. |
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| 21 | On the other hand, I was requested to program a punching GUI for |
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| 22 | Microsoft Windows. Therefore I have programed a M$ Windows parallel |
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| 23 | port driver and a GTK graphical user interface. |
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| 25 | To compile these things on Windows, I use MinGW and MSYS, as well |
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| 26 | as the precompiled GTK+ libraries and header files for Windows. |
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| 27 | This documentation shall give a small overview how to setup an |
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| 28 | environment. Programing has been tested at Windows 2000 and |
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| 29 | Windows XP. Generally, the old Win 9x tree is no more supported. |
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| 31 | Setting up the Windows Environment |
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| 33 | You need to install, in order: |
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| 35 | 1. MinGW. The most simple is the Automated MinGW Installer. See |
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| 36 | http://www.mingw.org |
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| 37 | 2. MSYS, if you want. |
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| 38 | 3. The latest version of GTK+ (2.10.0 or newer) |
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| 41 | Sven Köppel, $Id$ |
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