Linux Napster Client, instructions for Windows distribution
Nap was written by Kevin Sullivan, and modified by Peter Selinger and others. See COPYRIGHT, ChangeLog, and AUTHORS.
This file contains instructions specific to the Windows distribution of nap. Please see README for general information on usage etc.
INSTALLATION for Windows 95/98/2000/NT:
Download the file nap-XXX.cygwin32.zip, and unpack it with
pkunzip nap-XXX.cygwin32.zip
(Note: pkunzip is a relatively dumb program. My version of it, which came with Windows 98, does not understand long filenames, and you may have to type something of the form "pkunzip nap-1.~1.zip". Instead of creating a directory, it may decide to dump the files in the current working directory, and it may rename them. Use "unzip" instead of "pkunzip" if it is available.)
The windows distribution includes two executable file nap.exe and napping.exe, and two dll's (dynamically linked libraries) cygncurses5.dll and cygwin1.dll. You need to put these dll's in a place where Windows can find them, before running nap.exe. You also need to put napping.exe in a place where Windows can find it. One way to do this is to copy all four files to a location (such as C:\WINDOWS) where Windows looks for dll's and executable files. Another way is to amend your PATH environment variable, by adding something like the following line to C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT:
PATH=%PATH%;C:\DIRECTORY\WHERE\FILES\ARE
If you already have a different version of cygwin installed, you cannot use this binary unless you up/downgrade to the version of cygwin that comes with the nap distribution. However, there should be no problem re-compiling nap under your version of cygwin.
- RUNNING
Nap on Windows runs exactly the same way as under Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, due to the amazing magic of cygwin (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/), which simulates a unix environment under Windows. However, there are two caveats:
- Performance: the ncurses implementation under cygwin appears to be very inefficient, resulting in a relatively slow screen update. Thus, characters will appear much more slowly on the screen than under Linux and friends.
- Location of config files: under Linux & co., nap puts its configuration files in a directory called .nap in the user's home directory. Under Windows, there is no such thing as a user's home directory, and nap will by default look for the .nap directory in the current working directory. You can change this behavior by defining an environment variable HOME. I do this by something like the line
set HOME=C:\SOME\DIRECTORY
in my C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT. This will cause nap to look for (and create) its configuration files in the directory C:\SOME\DIRECTORY\.nap.
For usage and other non-Windows specific information, see README.