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- Thing Utils for Linux
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-
- If you are a Linux user, you may need to know the following:
-
- The precompiled binaries are compiled on an ELF system, gcc 2.7.0
- Custom Kernel 1.2.13. The Linux source is heavily dependant on QEU v0.3,
- which is why it is not distributed here also, as that would mean including
- QEU. I hope that the source will be released with the next version of QEU.
-
- In the meantime, I can send additional source files to those who want them,
- just mail me. You will need QEU 0.3 to compile. Comaptibility with later
- or earlier versions of QEU can not be guaranteed! Source code to Linux
- Thingy is in `C'.
-
- The binaries are the files `exthing' and `upthing'. You should ensure that
- they are in lower case to ease the typing :-) You should also have executable
- permissions on these files (chmod a+x exthing) etc.
-
- Note that the Linux version does _not_ create backups of files it overwrites,
- unlike the DOS version.
-
- Die to the fact that UNIX text files don't have extraneous CRs in them, Linux
- EXTHING does not add them to the .THG files it creates. Linux UPTHING does
- remove them, however, so that Linux users can use THG files created by DOS
- people.
-
- There is a bug in exthing :( If you omit the THING filename, _and_ extract
- the file directly from a pakfile, then the THING filename will be the same
- as the PAK file, not the BSP file.
-
- eg:
-
- exthing id1@test1
-
- will produce a file `id1.thg', not `test1.thg'.
-
- <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>
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