Re: GeoWorks Ensemble applications on a Zoomer?

chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)

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From: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
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Subject: Re: GeoWorks Ensemble applications on a Zoomer?
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> If anyone else is doing anything crazy like this, please correspond.  I'd love
> to collaborate on this. I'm _especially_ interested in knowing which files are
> required for each application.

     I fooled with this for a while.  I ran out of space, since I haven't ponied
up for the PCMCIA disk yet.

     In any case, if you do a "strings" on the GeoWorks executables, the
required system libraries are listed early in the output.  For example,
doing a "strings geocalc.geo" yields

	SGeoCalc
	GCAL
	GEOS
	Copyright GeoWorks 1991
	)geocalc app GCAL
	geos    
	ui      
	spool   
	cell    
	parse   
	math    
	ssheet  
	ruler   
	text    
	impex   
	spline  
	grobj   
	chart   
	bitmap  
	styles  
	color   
	`9`O`
	PQRUV
	^]ZYX
	u$PQWV
	^_YXt

The first line is the GEOS name of the app, then the icon and app tokens for
the token database, a copyright (duh!), some unknown stuff, and then a list
of libraries.  When the text starts to break up, you've hit code, so you can
stop looking.  In this case, GeoCalc needs the geos, ui, spool, cell, parse,
math, ssheet, ruler, text, impex, spline, grobj, chart, bitmap, styles, and
color libraries.

     If you look in the SYSTEM directory, you'll *.geo files that correspond
to these libraries.  Make sure these files are copied over before trying to
run the app.  Note that you don't need all of them to *start* the app, since
GEOS only loads the libraries on demand.

Chuck Musciano

PS Strings is a Unix command that pulls ASCII strings from a file.  I think
   that the picnix package for DOS has strings in it, as well as about 25 other
   useful Unix commands ported to DOS.