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[Kent]

Drats, dvdongle and Dvap run great on my Surface Pro Windows 8

Kent
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On May 28, 2013, at 17:24, Dean Gibson AE7Q <data at ae7q.net> wrote:

> 
> On 2013-05-28 11:13, Dan Smith wrote:
>>>  Should D-Rats run on Win98/SE?
>> Nope, D-RATS requires an operating system and neither of those products qualify, IMHO :)
>> 
>> This has always been the case. The last editions of these DOS-based GUIs were EOL'd by Microsoft in 2006, two years before D-RATS showed up.  GTK hasn't provided builds that run on Win9x for a long time. There is no way to run those environments securely, nor with a modern enough browser to do anything useful.
>> 
>> It's time to let go... :)
> 
> The browser (IE 6) works fine on Win 98.  My problem is not Win 98, but having a relatively small (eg, portable) device that can send/receive D-Star low-speed data.  They don't need to be secure;  they are not connecting to the Internet.  I'd update these laptops in a second to Win XP, but I doubt they'd run XP with only 96MB of RAM.  These laptops also dual-boot to Fedora Core 5;  do you have an RPM for Fedora Core 5?
> 
> Yes, I could go buy two more modern laptops, but I'm not inclined to do that for a trade show just in order to run D-Rats, since Win 98 runs all of the rest of the D-Star and related communications software (including new Icom software) that I need.  At home, I have three Windows computers that are fully capable of running D-Rats.
> 
> My modern choice for a portable D-Star data solution would be an Android device (I have eight) ... but D-Rats isn't there (yet).  Someone suggested a "Linux on Android" solution, but I have my doubts that the GUI interface would work ... More promising is http://code.google.com/p/python-for-android/ , but then there's the problem of GTK for Android (apparently not available).
> 
> In order to connect an Android device to a D-Star serial port, one needs an Android device with a USB port that is (or can be) configured for USB host mode.  If one uses the typical tablet USB slave port as a connection and then is able to configure it for USB host mode, then in order to be useful for more than a short period, it also needs a separate connection for power.  My two Acer Iconia A500 tablets (Android 4.0) meet those requirements (although one of them died last week ...), and indeed I can send/receive D-Star data with them, but only in a text window.
> 
> Of course, there's always a Windows 8 tablet, but my guess is that you don't recommend that ... (nor would I).
> 
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