Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: forthrightly@no-email.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: SwiftForth Linux eval is 32 bit only! Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 11:41:12 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: +WPaf99SihO7MMrlVUUdlg.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.forth:1738 On 2011-05-04, Andrew Haley wrote: > forthrightly@no-email.com wrote: > >> First of all thank you for making the evaluation editions available, >> really an impressive package! I prefer to work in the Linux >> environment so I downloaded your Linux package. Unfortunately it is >> 32 bit only. Many Linux distributions do support what they call >> multilib, that is 32 or 64 bit executables, however several major >> distributions are 64 bit only. Alas I'm running a pure 64 bit distro >> (Slackware) and I can't use your evaluation package on Linux. > > It really is time for you to Upgrade. :-) > > Andrew. Ah, I see you're new to Linux as well. So you may as well know, once you Slack you can never go back. Slackware *is* the ultimate upgrade ;-) Cheers! Harry the Slacker