Re: LIF Utilities for linux Message #5 Posted by Glen Sanft on 23 Feb 2011, 8:27 p.m., in response to message #1 by Christoph Giesselink
The tarball for those utilities is currently located at http://www.hpcc.org/datafile/hpil/lifutils.tar.gz (the link in your linked-to page above is not valid anymore)
The "Readme" file in the archive file says:
Quote: These programs should build on a standard linux system by simply unpacking the archive and typing 'make'. Porting to other unix-like OSes will be difficult owing to the direct access to the floppy disk controller. At least lif_phy.c will need major changes.
I'd venture to guess that the code in the current Linux sources might be different-enough to require some patching to get this stuff to work. It certainly wouldn't work under Windows, at least directly, even if you fetched pertinent linux headers to make the compiler happy.
Maybe fetch an historic version of Slackware from back when this package was put together, and install it into a virtual machine (i.e. VirtualBox) under your Windows. "Boot" the machine, compile the code, and run it from the command-line in a terminal window. Maybe?
Whenever I have to use Windows I get done what I need in a virtual machine under GNU/Linux. Then go take a shower...
No matter how you tackle this you'll have to roll up your sleeves a bit.
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