<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Drats, dvdongle and Dvap run great on my Surface Pro Windows 8</div><div><br></div><div>Kent</div><div>KQ4KK</div><div><br>On May 28, 2013, at 17:24, Dean Gibson AE7Q <<a href="mailto:data@ae7q.net">data@ae7q.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2013-05-28 11:13, Dan Smith wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap=""> Should D-Rats run on Win98/SE?
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<pre wrap="">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 <b>modern</b> enough browser to do anything useful.
It's time to let go... :)
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The browser (IE 6) works fine on Win 98. My problem is not Win 98,
but having a relatively small (eg, <b>portable</b>) 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?<br>
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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.<br>
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My <b>modern </b>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
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://code.google.com/p/python-for-android/">http://code.google.com/p/python-for-android/</a> , but then there's the
problem of GTK for Android (apparently not available).<br>
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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.<br>
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Of course, there's always a Windows 8 tablet, but my guess is that
you don't recommend that ... (nor would I).<br>
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