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Strobe V1.03 for OS/2
This is a 'port' to OS/2 of strobe V1.03, which is software originally written
by Julian Assange <strobe@suburbia.net>.
Read this text before you use strobe.
Porting
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[Almost] no changes to the code were necessary. I only changed the place to
where the #defines ETC_SERVICES and LIB_STROBE_SERVICES point on my system,
and included the OS2.H header at the beginning, but you'll see that.
Since the Makefile included in the original distribution is unnecessary,
I've included a .CMD to do the compilation. Read it before using it.
What you need
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Running:
In order to be able to run strobe on your OS/2 system, you will need
the following things:
- OS/2
- A LAN card compatible with OS/2 MPTS (or at least the loopback driver).
- IBM MPTS
- IBM TCP/IP for OS/2
- The EMX runtime V0.9d
Compiling:
In order to be able to compile strobe on your OS/2 system, you will need
the following things:
- OS/2
- EMX/GCC V0.9d
- The EMX runtime V0.9d
What is included here
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- strobe-1_03.tar.gz - the original distribution file I snarfed from the net.
- Two precompiled executables:
* strobe.exe - A compiled version of strobe.
* strobeV4.exe - A compiled version of strobe, for use with IBM TCP/IP V4.
- readme.OS2 - this file
- compile.cmd - A script file for compiling strobe on OS/2
- strobe.c - The code, as amended for use with OS/2.
- strobe.txt - The manpage converted to plain text.
- CREDITS - An updated CREDITS file (very important).
What is NOT included here
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- The software mentioned above. If you don't have it, get it via ftp or
buy it from IBM.
- New features.
- Bug fixes.
- Support of any kind. Dont write to me if you dont know how to use strobe.
(Check the COPYRIGHT file)
- Warranty of any kind. If you do stupid things with this tool and ruin
something or piss off people, you're on your own. Again, check the
COPYRIGHT file.
Miscellanea
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- It should be trivial to port/recompile this code using icc, but it yields
some error messages. Perhaps a Makefile would help here, but I'm not good
at make files and don't have the time.
- I use OS/2 V4 + fixpack6, MPTS and TCP/IP are WR08620 (V4.2), but my system
is a mess made up of pieces from all possible software packages. Strobe
works for me and will probably work even on OS/2 V3 with corresponding
network subsystems installed, but it's up to somebody else to try that out.
- If you compile the executable with a lower version of EMX/GCC, it will
probably work too. But, why would you want to do such a thing ?
Bugs
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- The -M (mail to author) non-feature flag will most probably not work the
way it is. Workaround would be to have a mailer which behaves line *nix mail.