zz: How to get ZigZag working on Win32.

[Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Andy:

Belated thanks on this great-sounding method.

However, we are very short on people-time.
 Would you by any chance be able to build this
 as a distributable for us?

Best, Ted


At 07:37 PM 1/17/99 +0000, you wrote:
>(This is for Xanni but I couldn't find an address anywhere.)
>
>Hi,
>
>Thanks for ZigZag.
>
>Below are some simple steps for a fairly quick hack to get Zigzag
>working on a box running Win32.
>It's messy but it works.  It'll tide us over until someone ports the
>display/input routines to 
>Win32::Console or something more cross platform.
>
>Feel free to quote this wherever or lose it completely.  I don't mind.
>
>Andy. (andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>
>*************
>
>Getting ZigZag to work with Win32
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>This should be easier than this but like most Windows users I don't have
>a C compiler or a copies of Diff/Patch.
>
>Get your copy of ZigZag [1].  These changes work with version 0.66. 
>They might not work with later versions without some modification.
>
>Get the Gurusamy Sarathy build of perl [2]. It comes with a (mostly
>working) version of the curses module.
>
>Get the Gurusamy Sarathy build of DB_File [3].
>
>Changes to ZigZag.pm
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Your build of perl doesn't come with the POSIX module so you need to
>comment out the line 'use POSIX;'.
>Add a line 'use IO::Seekable;'
>
>Changes to ZigZag
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Comment out the line 'use POSIX;'
>Replace the two instances of 'display_status_draw(NULL);' with
>'display_status_draw("");'.
>Replace the line 'my $TEMP_FILE = "/tmp/zigzag-$<-$^T";' with 'my
>$TEMP_FILE = "c:\\temp\\zigzag-$<-$^T";' or similar depending on your
>temp directory.
>At the start of the main loop find the two lines:-
>
>	my $key_pressed = input_get_any();
>	my $i;
>
>and replace them with...
>
>	my $key_pressed = "";
>	my $i;
>	for ($i = 0; $i <= $#Window_Dirty; $i++) { display_draw_window($i,
>defined($key_pressed)); }
>	$key_pressed = input_get_any(); # I think this blocks!
>
>In the sub 'display_draw_window' replace the line 'erase($win) unless
>$preview;' with 'erase($win);'
>
>In the sub 'display_draw_quad' comment out the line 'return if
>$preview;'
>
>Running ZigZag
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Before you run ZigZag you need to 'set EDITOR=edit' or similar at the
>command prompt which will use the standard text editor to edit cells.
>
>
>Happy Zigging.
>
>Andy. (andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
>
>[1] ftp://ftp.xanadu.net/pub/Zigzag/
>[2]
>ftp://ftp.iguide.com/pub/mirrors/packages/perl/CPAN/ports/win95/Standard/x8
6/perl5.00402-bindist04-bc.zip
>[3]
>ftp://ftp.iguide.com/pub/mirrors/packages/perl/CPAN/ports/win95/Standard/x8
6/DB_File-1.54-bin-v3-x86-mswin32-bc.zip
>
>
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