Re: Comments and questions

[Paul E Johnson]

An wrote:
> > Right indeed, you should definitely get the latest snapshot releases,
> > rather than 2.1.1, but on the development snapshot page:
> >
> >  http://www.swarm.org/release-swarm-snapshot.html
>
>
> (1) Swarm on-line FAQ by Paul Johnson (question 3.1) suggested another 
> site for downloading the Swarm Windows version: 
> ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/binaries/w32/latest, where the zipped 
> files are much fewer than the above website. What is the difference? 

the "testing" directory is the source code. You can build Swarm from 
source for yourself with that

the "w32/latest" directory is binary "prebuilt" versions for windows.

> BTW, I use a Windows XP OS.

Sorry.

> (2) In addition, when I was trying to unzip the zipped file 
> "Swarm-2.2-pretest-2.tar.gz" from 
> ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/binaries/w32/latest, the unzipping process 
> failed after 5 minutes, and the computer went cracked--I got a warning 
> message, "A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to 
> prevent  damage to your computer. IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL,...***STOP: 
> 0X0000000A (0XC0000000, 0X00000002, 0X00000000,0X804FA688) Beginning 
> dump of physical memory, physical memory dump comlete, ...". What is wrong?

Looks like a windows XP problem.  This error happens inside a cygwin 
shell?  I would not trust any windows tool to do your unzipping and 
untarring.

> (3) What should I do with gcrt0.o and libgmon.a in the website 
> ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/binaries/ w32/latest? 

Nothing. Those are from the 2.1.1 update where we released specific 
files that were needed anew. If you use the pre-2.2 package, it is complete.


> Cannot unzip it--the 
> computer (Windows XP) does not know their format and gives out a number 
> of optional formats (notepad, excel, etc.) to open it.
>
> (4) Is tar (or untar) a UNIX term? What does it mean?

I knew this would come in handy one day. I think the SwarmFaq points at 
it, but you can go straight here:

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/SwarmFaq/Memos/Swarm-Unix-FAQ.html

> Regards,
>
> Li An
>
> > there are links to Paul Johnson's RPMs for these snapshot releases for
> > Red Hat Linux 7.2 and 7.3 (under GNU/Linux binaries).  Currently we
> > are providing binaries for snapshot releases as well as the stable
> > release, just for not as many platforms as for the stable release.
> >
> > If you did not notice these, perhaps we should make them more
> > prominent.
> >
> > A.
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