[TowerTalk] Fwd: RE: NEC 5 upgrade

[jimlux]

On 8/10/20 3:27 PM, Dan Maguire wrote:
> Jim Lux wrote:
>>>> The real question is "how hard is going to be to compile for the various target machines I run it on".
> 
> The NEC-5 release does not include source code, at least not yet.  Not
> sure if that might change in the future.


That is a significant problem - the "paying customers" for NEC tend to 
run it on all sorts of hardware (I'm running it on 3 different clusters, 
each with different software configurations - thank you, very much, 
Intel; as well as a Win 10 PC and a Mac)

> 
> The download package (zip file) includes Windows executable files.
> The zip also has a separate "MACOSX" folder.  All of the files in that
> folder are precisely 1 KB in size.  I have absolutely no idea what's
> going on with that.
> 
> In addition to the engine executables there is also a new "Graphical
> Interface" program.  It can be used to a) help build the input file
> and b) display various plots using data from the output file.  The new
> GUI is named "NEC5GI" and it is an extension of "NECPlotG" which was
> included with the NEC-4.2 release.
> 
> For some screen grabs from the older "NECPlotG" program see
> 
> https://ac6la.com/xlgta.html#Part7  (scroll down)
> 
> and
> 
> https://ac6la.com/aecollection8.html#84
> 
> Dan, AC6LA
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