Re: Q's ? Q's ? Q's ?

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Original poster: "Dr. Duncan Cadd by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <dunckx-at-freeuk-dot-com>

Goedemorgen Sietze!

>>5 Are there any coilers in the dutch who are capabel of helping
design and
>>build a realy working coil. First experiments ended very sad with
burn up
>>coils, sparking home fuseboxes, screaming of relatives, los of
dignity.

You guys really know how to party . . .

>>So please give me some help to get started. I want to meet some
coilers irl
>>(in real live that is).


Ik ben altijd elektronisch bereikbaar . . . wij kunnen dus proberen
als er geen andere mogelijkheid is :-)

>>6 I would also like to use some programs for designing purpose, do
you know
>>some nice one's (with url ofcourse(can't do without(since search on
the web
>>gives so much nonsense and mess))). And if possible I would like to
use
>>Linux programs since all my activity will be transeferred to linux
(for some
>>reasons it seems better to use Linux(to much to explain here(ask
Bill G. why
>>he made such a mess of are pc's(Linus T. does a better job!)))).


If you can find source code in Fortran77 or C, you can recompile it
under the GNU compiler g77 or gcc (now I think egcs) which is a
standard part of Linux, so it will run under Linux. It shouldn't
matter if the original program was written for Windows/DOS so long as
it doesn't use the Windows environment, which rules out a few
excellent programs but then their source code isn't available anyway.
I've used g77 successfully but not directly gcc (actually, g77 calls
gcc) so it can't be that hard ;-)

I don't know if Terry's ETesla source is available?  There are also
some Java programs out there and Java is platform-independent, so will
run on a Linux box (so they tell me but don't ask how, the only Java I
know is the stuff you drink).

If you have the source code (which will have a .for or .f filename
extension assuming it's Fortran) just type:
g77 program.for -o program.exe
where program.for (or program.f) is the source code and program.exe is
what you want it called once it has been compiled.

I expect the C equivalent is:
gcc program.c -o program.exe
but doubtless there are howto, doc, info and a pile of other files on
your Linux system which will give all the gory details.  There must
also be Linux user groups in the Netherlands which will be able and
willing to help you all they can.  There's loads in the UK.  I don't
presently use Linux, but some years ago now I tried it for around six
months or so before heading back to Gatesville . . . long story.

>>Thanks for reading (if you can read this at 1024*768 you don't need
glasses)
>
>All the post to the list get converted to plain ASCII so I can read
it at
>1280 x 1024 ;-))


Het gaat ook op 640x480 ;-)))

Dunckx