Re: Gold Star Nomination

[Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin at gmail dot com>]

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@ozemail.com.au
<steve_heaton@ozemail.com.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
> 
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