shiptool v0.18 has been released

Why should you use 0.18 rather than 0.17?

Well, this isn't a big upgrade. In fact, the functional differences are
minimal. However, thanks to Jerry Acord, there are now Windows binaries
available; Windows users need no longer install Perl to use the shiptool
package. (It's a bigger download, of course.)

For those of you who haven't tried it, the shiptool suite is a full FT2.5 ship
design, fleet management and SSD printing package, which
supports all FB1 and FB2 rules. It will run on any system with Perl/Tk
installed - I develop it under Linux. (Being fair, I don't think anyone
has tried with MacPerl yet. Anybody?)

Hi,

I have tried it on Mac OS X, but there are problems with getting
Perl/Tk to compile with the existing Darwin dynamic loader.

Of course, getting to that point took a while, and I tried recompiling the
dynamic loader to enable multiply defined symbols, hosed my system, was able
to go to backups and decided to leave it at that. I expect that someone who is
much more familiar with Perl and Tk will sort this out.

My conclusion was that it was not for the faint of heart...

Cheers, Tony Christney

> On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 02:09 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:

> Why should you use 0.18 rather than 0.17?