[RTTY] Software question

[Al Kozakiewicz]

N1MM appears to be written in VB6.  VB .Net applications can be easily deployed on Linux, for one example, with tools such as Mono.  VB6 has been end of life for probably 10 or more years at this point.

Al
AB2ZY

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From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill, W6WRT [dezrat1242 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 4:02 PM
To: RTTY Reflector
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Software question

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:49:25 -0700, N6ML wrote:

>Further; N1MM Logger is developed in MS Visual Basic, which doesn't
>port to non-Windows platforms.
>
>http://n1mm.hamdocs.com/tiki-index.php?page=Program+Development
>
>73,
>
>    ~iain / N6ML

REPLY:
I understand but I'm curious why the author didn't choose to write it
cross-platform to begin with?

Not second-guessing or anything like that, just curious.

73, Bill W6WRT
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