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Installing WinTin++

A windows installer is available for download to install WinTin++, which exists of the PuTTY terminal and a TinTin++ binary. Wintin doesn't have shell capabilities, but otherwise it's an excellent TinTin++ port that works on Windows 95, 98, XP, and Vista. For an interactive shell see the instructions for installing TinTin++ on Windows.

Compiling TinTin++

Download the TinTin++ source code in the download directory cd to the directory you downloaded the tar.gz file into Type: tar -zxf <filename> Type: cd tt/src/ Type: ./configure Type: make Type: ./tt++ to start TinTin++ If this didn't work you can try the pre-compiled binary for your platform.

Installing TinTin++

BSD Debian Fedora Mandrake Mac OS X (OSX) 10.2 and higher Red Hat Slackware 8.0 and higher Solaris SuSe Ubuntu Windows 95 and higher

BSD

The precompiled linux binary has been reported to work for BSD.

In order to compile the source code you may need to have the zlib and pcre libraries installed.

Debian

The precompiled linux binary has been reported to work for Debian.

Fedora

The precompiled linux binary has been reported to work for Fedora.

In order to compile the source code you need to have the pcre and zlib package installed. This can be done with: yum install zlib-devel and yum install pcre-devel

Mandrake

The precompiled linux binary has been reported to work for Mandrake.

Mac OS X (OSX) 10.2 and higher

The precompiled universal OS X binary works for Mac OS X 10.2 and higher. It's available in the download section.

Red Hat

The precompiled binary has been reported to sometimes work for Red Hat.

Slackware

The precompiled Slackware binary works for most Linux distros. It's available in the download section.

Solaris

If you get symbol reference errors add -lxnet to the end of the CC variable in Makefile: CC = -Wall -lxnet

SuSe

The precompiled linux binary has been reported to work for SuSe.

Ubuntu

The precompiled linux binary probably works for Ubuntu.

In order to compile the source code you need to have the pcre and zlib packages installed.

Windows 95 and higher

An installer is available for download to install Wintin, which exists of the PuTTY terminal and the TinTin++ binary. Wintin doesn't have shell capabilities, but otherwise Wintin is an excellent TinTin++ port that works on Windows 95, 98, XP, and Vista.

Wintin is not to be confused with the less retro (or what some would call more graphical) wintin.net or wintin 95 mud client. For people who want an upgrade from wintin 95 the Wintin port is an excellent alternative supporting most of the same features, except for some wintin 95 and wintin.net specific commands, as well as a lot of functionality that has been added to TinTin++ and hence is available in the Wintin port as well, like regular expression support.

In order to run Wintin or TinTin++ in a linux environment on Windows you need the Cygwin emulator which consists of two parts:

A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality. A collection of tools, which provide Linux look and feel.

The Cygwin DLL works with all non-beta, non 'release candidate', ix86 32 bit versions of Windows since Windows 95, with the exception of Windows CE.

The size of Cygwin depends on how many packages you install, but averages around 200 megabytes while Wintin is only 2 MB. If this appeals to you, follow the instructions below to install Cygwin. Keep in mind that Wintin doesn't have shell capabilities which means the #system, #run, and #script command will not work. These commands are useful for sub windowing, ssh, and executing installed scripting languages.

Create the directory named 'Cygwin' in the root of your C drive: C:\Cygwin. Download setup.exe from http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe to the Cygwin directory. Launch setup.exe and click next Choose 'install from internet' and click next Use the default values, click next Just use the default for the package directory, click next Set your internet connection, click next Select a download site, click next You must select the correct packages now, select the following: Devel: select gcc-core, gcc-g++, gcc-ming2-g++, make, pcre-devel. Editors: select your favorite editor, if available. Interpreters: select your favorite scripting language, if available. Libs: select glib, glib2, zlib. Net: select inetutils. Shells: select rxvt, tcsh. System: select util-linux. Click next and wait for cygwin to finish installation. You'll find a cygwin icon on your desk top, it opens a windows console, which is crap, so you will want to setup rxvt. Add the file .Xdefaults in C:\Cygwin\home\YourUsername and have it contain the following: Rxvt*geometry: 80x27 Rxvt*background: #000000 Rxvt*foreground: #ffffff Rxvt*scrollBar: False Rxvt*font: Courier-15 Rxvt*boldFont: Courier-15 Rxvt*saveLines: 2000 Rxvt*loginShell: True Rxvt*title: rxvt Rxvt*iconName: rxvt Rxvt*scrollTtyOutput: False Rxvt*scrollTtyKeypress: True Rxvt*visualBell: True Rxvt*cursorColor: #55FF55 Rxvt*color0: #000000 Rxvt*color1: #AA0000 Rxvt*color2: #00AA00 Rxvt*color3: #AAAA00 Rxvt*color4: #0000AA Rxvt*color5: #AA00AA Rxvt*color6: #00AAAA Rxvt*color7: #AAAAAA Rxvt*color8: #555555 Rxvt*color9: #FF5555 Rxvt*color10: #55FF5A Rxvt*color11: #FFFF55 Rxvt*color12: #5555FF Rxvt*color13: #FF55FF Rxvt*color14: #55FFFF Rxvt*color15: #FFFFFF Edit cygwin.bat in C:\Cygwin\ and change the last line to: rxvt -e bash --login -i Download tintin.tar.gz (do not unzip it) to C:\Cygwin\Home\YourUsername\ Enter your rxvt shell (click the cygwin icon) and type: tar -zxvf tintin*.tar.gz cd tt/src/ ./configure make make install tt++ The last command should startup TinTin++. If you want a more powerful terminal with keypad support you should give PuTTYcyg a try, the Wintin build uses PuTTYcyg by default. Enjoy