ilper 1.35.2 on Linux

[grsbanks]

Thanks all for the feedback.

For now I'm going to have to resign myself to it being Windows-only. I really don't want to have to pull down half the internet and install graphics libraries that I have no use for other than this and, despite currently being furloughed, I don't have time to look at the source code at the moment.

The up-shot of this is that it's forced me to take a closer look at an issue that I was having with the Windows version and had forgotten about.

I could write to a file on an emulated drive up to a certain point, but then the process would bail out with a "Medium error". Just to make sure it wasn't a problem with the PilBox, I switched from my HP-71B to Emu71 and guess what... I was still getting the medium errors.

It turns out that ILPer doesn't play ball with Google Backup & Sync (formerly Google Drive). When GB&S picks up on the fact that the image file has changed and tries to back it up, ILPer is no longer able to access the file. My image files were in a folder that is synced by GB&S.

This is probably a fairly simple change to the ILPer source code that should allow it to open the file with the appropriate file share permissions. I'll look at that at some point and probably send in a patch. But for now, don't put your LIF files in a folder that's synced by GB&S! (or presumably OneDrive, I've not tested that).

EDIT: I also got the Windows version of ILPer working under WINE