Cool!!! It sounds like I will have to investigate that. Thanks for the tip, Mate
Yeah, I started with the 64 with the tape drive. It was much better than the previous unit, which had a whopping 1 k of ram, and no outputs to any type of storage (Timex-Sinclair ZX80). The tape was nice, but it didn't take long before I wanted the 1541. I got it and was in heaven! I notched the flip side of the floppies, and used it too. Much later I sold the 64, and purchased the 128. After that I added the 1571, 1581, Ram expansion, an external hayes 1200 baud modem, a mouse, and the RGB monitor. I had that setup for quite a while, and it served me well. Then the IBM clones started their siren call, and I could not resist switching over. During this time I was maintaining everything from PCs, through minis like the uyk-20 and uyk-44, to the larger systems like the uyk-7 variants, and the VAX11-780 series, including all the peripherals. It's been a long, fun ride. After I retired, I went to work for Verbatim, working on the robots which made 3.5 inch floppies. Now I am in high speed industrial robotics with another company. YEE-HA!
Yeah, Stan You still need a few more years of practice to get it right. Nyuk, NyukI get up at 4:30 on work days, but I don't get home until 7:00. I must be doing it wrong!
(I should say Galloping!) in during the install, so I ended up replacing that drive. Now the install and updates are complete, and I can continue with my journey of enlightenment. WOOHOO! I installed the old drive into a USB external case for further analysis at a later time.Dude, I just went to the sbopkg info page. That is freaking awesome!
I added a bookmark for it and will do more research on it tomorrow. Now I have to retire for the evening, because tomorrow I will be at the salt mines (my friday). Ok, I just installed sbopkg version 0.38.1. This should be fun! I still have some work to do getting the new install of slack set up to my liking, but then tweaking is half the fun, eh?
I thought that I had tried everything, when my wife came in. I told her what I was trying to do, and after suggesting most of the same stuff, she asked if I had tried right clicking on the desktop. BINGO! Well, I will take help from anyone, even a windows user. I added the duck, the toy, and a few other choice files to the collection. Good to go, and one more thing learned. Mo wisdom!Ok, Mate, I am in need of another dose of wisdom. I am attempting to make a slackpack of Fldigi 4.0.4. I downloaded the slackbuilds archive for fldigi, decompressed & exploded it. I modified the version statement in the slackbuild script from 3.22.08 to 4.0.4. I downloaded the compressed tarball for 4.0.4 into my build environment where the script files were located. So far so good.
I made the script executable using chmod, and ran it. It started the process of making the slackpack, but showed a configuration error "The fltk-config script could not be found. Please install the development headers and libraries for FLTK 1.1.x or set PATH to the directory that contains fltk-config". Rats, and I was so close. This is my first attempt, and it took a while to get to this point, but at least I did not Bork the slack install. I guess that is a good thing. Oh well, if at first you don't succeed... This one should be worth at lease a couple t-shirts! I have Slackbook 2.0, the Bash Beginners Guide, and Slackbasics, all in PDF format. It may take a bit of time, but I intend to read through all of them. We will see if anything sinks in or not. Wish me luck, and if anyone has any other suggestions for reading material, please let me know.
