[drats_users] [D-RATS] #233: Winlink incompatibility with Win64 (was: Winlink incompatibility)

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#233: Winlink incompatibility with Win64
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 Reporter:  gdick@…          |       Owner:  kk7ds   
     Type:  Bug              |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  Stability        |   Milestone:  0.3.3b1 
Component:  General          |     Version:  0.3.2   
 Keywords:  Winlink          |    Platform:  Windows 
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Changes (by kk7ds):

  * status:  new => accepted


Comment:

 Hi Gord,

 The message in the log indicates that your 64-bit version of windows will
 not run the 16-bit binary executable required to decode the Winlink
 messages.  This is a unfortunate consequence of the fact that Winlink uses
 a compression algorithm from the early 1980's that is no longer used or
 maintained.  Theoretically someone could compile a 64-bit version of it
 for Windows, but I don't have a 64-bit version of that OS and the compiler
 required to do so.  Until that point, we're a bit stuck.

 I'll rename this bug and leave it in place to remind us that it needs to
 be dealt with, but I don't have a plan to move forward with it at the
 moment.

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