[GreenKeys] Speed Converters

[teletype at buzbee.net]

Jim,
  Recent versions of HeavyMetal, both the perl and stand-alone executable,
should work just fine on Windows 2K/XP.  In fact, I no longer even have any
older Windows systems around to test on so development is done mostly on my
Windows XP laptop.  The latest stable version is:

V1.27: <http://www.buzbee.net/heavymetal/hm_1_27.zip>

  Try it out and let me know if you have any problems.  Note that the
"readme" file talks about having to install a separate utility program to
support direct access to your serial ports.  This is no longer the case.  I
left these instructions (and code) in there for now, but it all should work
"out of the box".  Just download the .zip file, unzip it and double-click on
HeavyMetal.exe.

   Let me know if you have any problems with it,

...Bill 

   P.S.  Note that there is a problem with heavymetal.pl when running on a
Linux system.  I made what I thought were "windows-only" changes that broke
the Linux version.  The code is fixed in the current experimental version
at:

V.128 (experimental) <http://www.buzbee.net/heavymetal/hm_1_28.zip>



> -----Original Message-----
> From: W8MAQ at aol.com [mailto:W8MAQ at aol.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 4:20 PM
> To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Speed Converters
> 
>  
> Bill and all,
>  
> Is  there any possibility of an incarnation of HeavyMetal 
> that will  run on a 
> computer with a modern operating system? No offense intended, 
> but I  don't 
> know how to install a PERL environment on my XP or Win2K 
> systems, and I'd  try 
> to avoid running Win95 which the Windows executable requires.
>  
> I'd love to experiment with and enjoy HeavyMetal and its 
> features, but  when 
> I contemplate getting it up and running, I always run into 
> the operating  
> system hurdle.
>  
> Thank you all for your good works and support TTY machines.
>  
> 73's
> Jim Young W8MAQ
>  
> 
> Andreas,
> I'm not sure if it will be of any use to you,  but I'm 
> currently finishing
> up an enhancement to HeavyMetal which will  allow control and 
> connection via
> TCP ports.  The main use was to  support a scenerio in which 
> you've got a PC
> (with possibly multiple serial  ports) with one or more instances of
> HeavyMetal running, each one  controlling a teletype machine 
> via a serial
> port.  Each of those  instances of HeavyMetal would then be 
> listening on a
> port for incoming  connections.
> In this model, you could then communicate with  one of your teletype
> machines remotely via a telnet client, or even another  instance of
> HeavyMetal, on a remote computer.  This doesn't completely  
> solve the problem
> of newer machines not having serial ports, but the idea  is 
> that you dedicate
> an old computer to manage the serial port connection  with 
> your teletype
> machine[s] and then you could use your modern computer  to 
> remotely control
> it.
> If anyone is interested in helping  me test it out (and 
> suggest features),
> let me know. 
> ...Bill  Buzbee
> 
> 
>  
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