Re: [Hardhats-members] CPRS and Linux and wine

2005-03-29 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
Hey now, don't be dissin' pascal, c++ is now a strongly typed language. Strong typing helps keep programs sane, and is easily overcome with typecasting. There is very little difference between c++ and borland's pascal, except that c++ has more users and has a few more of the rough corners rounde

Re: [Hardhats-members] CPRS and Linux and wine

2005-03-28 Thread Joseph Dal Molin
William Wong got as far as having the coversheet up using Wine..it's been a while since we tried it so have forgotten where the next stumbling block was. Joseph Nancy Anthracite wrote: This has been tried multiple times but there is never any joy in it. We have even talked about putting up

Re: [Hardhats-members] CPRS and Linux and wine

2005-03-28 Thread Nancy Anthracite
This has been tried multiple times but there is never any joy in it. We have even talked about putting up some money to get the wine crew to make it work on wine. The VA, however, is hoping to put out a Java version of CPRS in December. I have been told it will be part Delphi in Java wrappers

Re: [Hardhats-members] CPRS and Linux and wine

2005-03-28 Thread Doctor Bones
At first I thought !!! DOH Actual Source Code engage brain :) Then I saw the source code... and I think I would rather try it from the outside in. If I must, I will compile it again... but... It is written in PASCAL. for heaven's sake. I haven't even looked at pascal since ...well..

Re: [Hardhats-members] CPRS and Linux and wine

2005-03-28 Thread Mark Street
Why why why why Just burn some frogskins and get VMWare, run it as a virtual machine on your Linux box and run CPRS in its native environment, that's what I do on my laptop. I gave up on Wine in 1998, although I did purchase CrossOver Office by CodeWeavers, codeweavers.com. You may want t

Re: [Hardhats-members] CPRS and Linux and wine

2005-03-28 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
I was hoping that someone would try it. I've never known anyone to actually do it. But I thought that if they can get Half-Life2 to run on linux, why not CPRS? If you are up to trying, you could try to compile the source code with Kylix. That is Borland's linux version of Delphi/C++Builder Kev

Re: [Hardhats-members] CPRS and Linux and wine

2005-03-28 Thread Kevin Toppenberg
I was hoping that someone would try it. I've never known anyone to actually do it. But I thought that if they can get Half-Life2 to run on linux, why not CPRS? Kevin --- Doctor Bones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realize that everyone pretty much has written off > CPRS and wine with > linux.

[Hardhats-members] CPRS and Linux and wine

2005-03-28 Thread Doctor Bones
I realize that everyone pretty much has written off CPRS and wine with linux. Well, I decided to give a try for grins and giggles And guess what! It doesn't work. But... I have been thinking about it and I think I might be able to get it to work.What is the farthest anyone has gotten