Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 21:14:26 -0700 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: "steve_heaton AT ozemail DOT com DOT au" , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Gold Star Nomination In-Reply-To: <20040510021404.ONWU629.swebmail01.mail.ozemail.net@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040510021404 DOT ONWU629 DOT swebmail01 DOT mail DOT ozemail DOT net AT localhost> X-IsSubscribed: yes I don't have the ability to hand out Gold Stars, but this is great to hear! On Mon, 10 May 2004 12:14:03 +1000, steve_heaton AT ozemail DOT com DOT au wrote: > > G'day Cygwin > > I'd like to nominate Gerd Spalink for a gold star for his audio work on Cygwin. > > I'm part of a band of amateur radio astronomers that use a software correlator > (an audio app) that runs under Linux. We were faced with the duanting task of > migrating the app over to Windows to get greater coverage (lots of school > teacher etc are still scared of the big, bad 'L' ;) > > With a bit of effort I managed to get the application to run under Cygwin but > the 'play only' functionality of the published cygwin1.dll looked like a brick > wall. After a bit of snooping of email archives I found Gerd's work on 'record' > functionality. > > Our first Windows user is now successfully running the application! The > developer is overjoyed and so are the rest of us. > > If you're curious, we've got the start of a Web site happening here: > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~sheaton/spec/ > > Thanks to you and the Cygwin team too. We'll now be able to spread the good > word on amateur radio astronomy to Windows users :) > > Cheers > Steve > > This message was sent through MyMail http://www.mymail.com.au > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/