Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:23:13 01/03/03
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On January 03, 2003 at 04:57:06, Alessandro Damiani wrote:
>On January 02, 2003 at 18:49:40, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>Sorry to bother you with this half off-topic post, but I know there are Linux
>>fans here, and maybe they can help me.
>>
>>And after all it's all about a chess program!
>>
>>I want to port Chess Tiger to Linux, and release it as a free engine (without
>>sources). Later I hope to make a commercial product out of it, when enough
>>people start to use Linux (will take anywhere between 2 and 10 years).
>>
>>But right now here is my problem: I am running RedHat Linux 8.0. I don't want to
>>use another distribution. I have chosen it because it has the biggest market
>>share (sorry, I know I am commercially-biased).
>>
>>I'm looking for a good IDE to run on my RH8.
>>
>>At this time I only need to develop console mode programs.
>>
>>I have tried RHIDE (the IDE I am using since 5 years under DOS/Windows and that
>>allowed me to develop the 32 bits version of Chess Tiger).
>>
>>Unfortunately RHIDE (1.4.9, latest available version from the author) does not
>>work under RH8. Under X (in xterm or konsole for example), most key assignments
>>do not work (impossible to select text with Shift-Arrow for example). In a pure
>>text console, it displays garbage (looks like the foreground/background color
>>combinations are interpreted by the console as page code changes or something
>>like that). Ugly.
>>
>
>You may download the sources of RHIDE and compile them on your RedHat. Or you
>may try the one I found here: http://linux.tucows.com/system/preview/8625.html
>Just look below "Download for" and "Also available", there is the link "RedHat
>i386 Stable". It is 1.4.7, but for RedHat.
>
>Here is someone having the same problem like you (RHIDE doesn't run on Redhat):
>http://www.gnu-pascal.de/crystal/gpc/en/mail3192.html
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Alessandro
The last link you provide is a little bit outdated (1999).
Maybe I'll try to compile RHIDE on my Linux box, although it does not seem very
straightforward...
Thanks for the help.
Christophe
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