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| I downloaded the program, opened a DOS window and typed "LSynth_setup.exe" and got the following... This program cannot be run in DOS mode. Windows 2000 Professional. Ron (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| (...) Me too. So then I typed "start LSynth_setup.exe" to give it a full windows launch and got the quickly disappearing DOS window. Same for Start/Run LSynth_setup.exe and an explorer click on the executable. Could it be looking for something else (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| I re-uploaded it again. I downloaded and confirmed that it works. Hopefully it will work for the rest of you. Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| I re-uploaded it again. I downloaded and confirmed that it works. Hopefully it will work for the rest of you. Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| (...) Did you download it to a machine that had never had any of the SW (or your development environment) on it to confirm that it works? Maybe there's a development environment dependency you're not aware of? (21 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| Larry, When I came home from work, I downloaded what I had uploaded this morning, and ran into the same problems everyone else ran into. I re-uploaded it (making sure I was in binary mode). I then brought it down via the www and it worked. Have you (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| (...) Nope, just guessing... because your first post just said "I redownloaded it and it worked" without the addtional info this post had, that it wasn't working for you and that you reuploaded and redownloaded... Hope that helps. (21 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| (...) Actually I said this: (...) Thought it was clear enough that I had uploaded again to fix the problem. Kevin (21 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
| | | | | LSynth 2.0 Installer BUG (Was Re: LSynth 2.0 Available)
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| If you have more than one MKLIST.EXE file on your machine you will get an error with the installer. I get the following error. ERROR Can not create the following directory: D:\Development\LDraw Installation\MKLIST....ment\LDraw (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| Hi Don, I'd love it if you would set up the project on sourceforge. I know nothing about sourceforge specifically, although I've use source code control systems for many years. As we can see, there are plenty of wasy to improve lsynth, and I think (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| (...) Sure, send it along. I think the only sticky point that should be resolved before creating the project is the source code license. (I say "sticky" because we seem to have gotten stuck there with the parts library and a recent attempt to get (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| Hi Don, I have no idea what license to choose. Do you have a recommendation? Kevin (...) <snip> (21 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| (...) Not really. I tend to waver somewhere between the GPL and Public Domain, depending on how long it's been since I've had trouble with piece of closed software. Of the few licences here (URL) I've read, the zlib license is the shortest, and I do (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| (...) GPL is the best in terms or preserving the author's rights. Public Domain is a bad idea - it means you surrender any rights to the software, and people can then basically use it to build their own commercial programs and wouldn't owe you (...) (21 years ago, 16-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| Bill, My initial thought is.... what are the chances that someone will find a commercial use for this program? But in thinking about it more, I have no idea how far other contributing authors will take this program, so out of respect for their (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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| (...) Another issue is the ownership of the changes. Do you wish to require authors who contribute changes to assign ownership of the changes to you? If you do not, then the program becomes partly owned by you and all whose code you have accepted (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.inst)
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