[Rd] Request to Windows NT4 users

[Uwe Ligges]

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> I have just updated the MinGW tools to the latest versions.  These don't 
> include a patch that was intended to ensure NT 4 compatibility, but I 
> don't know if the patch is still necessary.
> 
> If anyone is still using NT4, could you please download R-patched, and 
> see if it runs on your system?  As of revision 38781 the builds are 
> using the new toolset.   This build should be available on CRAN within a 
> few hours, and on the mirrors sometime after that.  Go to
> 
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html
> 
> and check that the page is dated 2006-08-03 or later.

Duncan, I have given up my NT installation and switched to XP (this XP 
GUI is really slow, even on a much faster machine) since my old machine 
went to heaven. But I'll test it tomorrow on a Virtual PC where I still 
have an installation running...

Uwe



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