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Re: Puff 2.1: Ham package candidate



Looks like I sent my email a little late and I see you maybe having an amd64 distro.

b/c puff always looking for a file to load on its start, if you don't setup a name, it will try to load setup.puf, I made this sript and put it in /usr/bin. I have plenty of comments on it while I was writing it.

73,

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:29 PM, C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP <cjac@colliertech.org> wrote:
Okay.  compiled with a minor modification to the Makefile.  I have not
yet built the debian/ directory.


On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 18:02 -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP wrote:
> depends on fpc.  written in pascal, eh?  That was my first ever
> language.  I even did some libsvga stuff with it.  Interacted with the
> mouse using assembler and raising interrupts.  Good times.  Good times.
>
> I am building now.  I will see if I can build a debian/ directory.
>
>
> On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 14:08 -0800, Kiavash F wrote:
> > Hi Dear Debian ham team,
> >
> > I have recently noticed that PUFF 2.1 CAD Microwave Software has been
> > GPL'd as of 2010. I was introduced to this useful small program, back
> > in undergrad. At that time, It was only available on DOS and microwave
> > tools were sparse and "GUI based OS's" weren't that popular. For many
> > years I used DOSBOX to continue using PUFF for my HAM designs and
> > calculations.
> >
> > Now back in 2013, this tool is opened sourced and ported to Linux
> > (http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~ptdeboer/ham/puff/). I followed the
> > readme file and successfully built the executables under Ubuntu (I
> > know it is not Debian!), thinking this tool is missing in the wider
> > world of Linux users (there is no good open sourced industrial grade
> > Microwave cad tool that I am aware of). Having said that, it would be
> > great if PUFF can be added to Debian ham programs, but.... My
> > knowledge of programing and packing and ... is very very limited and I
> > wish I could picked up the task by myself. That is where your help
> > comes in. Would you mind to take a look at PUFF and think about
> > packaging it for (at least) x86/64 Debian releases?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Kiavash
>


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