install.txt

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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
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# Copyright 2008 Dan Smith <dsmith@danplanet.com> 
# review 2015-2020 Maurizio Andreotti  <iz2lxi@yahoo.it>
# Python3 conversion Copyright 2020-2022 John Malmberg <wb8tyw@qsl.net>
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Welcome to D-Rats, tested on Ubuntu 22.04, Windows 7, and Windows 10.
Windows 7 support is being dropped by the third party libraries needed soon.

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IF YOU ARE ALREADY A USER OF D-RATS

COMPATIBILITY NOTES
** D-RATS 0.3.5 --> 0.4.0 **
This version share the same configuration file of 0.3.5 - there are no actions
to be done.

** D-RATS 0.3.4 ** 
This version, like 0.3.5, need a configuration file which is different from
0.3.4, so please remove or delete it:

C:\Users\YOUR-USER-NAME\AppData\Roaming\D-RATS-EV\d-rats.config

** D-RATS <= 0.3.3 ** 
This version will create its own data folder in parallel to the one created
by former d-Rats 0.3.3 install, so not to interfere.


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IF YOU ARE A FIRST TIME USER OF D-RATS

D-rats can be run from a copy of the git repository you found it in.
However you will need to build the message catalogs for internationalization
to work and lzhuf for winlink support.
At some point we need some documentation for those steps.

See the file README.md for more details.