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Hi Daryl,

It has been a while! The original work was written in older versions of Python 2 with libraries that are no longer supported. There has been an enormous amount of work needed and much has been done by John Malmberg, WB8TYW and Maurizio Andreotti IZ2LXI .?

While in your "absence", D-RATS has undergone some major changes - much of the v0.4 development code was written to run under Msys2 or MobaXterm (emulation application) in the Python 3 environment (IIRC) so that the primary maintainers could continue work on fixing the Python code and making things current.

Here is a quote from the github repository which has me a bit confused on a brief reading. It is from :

Microsoft Windows

The installation is now primarily done from inside the MobaXterm application using.

This generally requires installing the msys2 package from , which is what is currently used for testing.

Other alternatives Windows Subsystem for Linux with a Linux installed or Cygwin . At the present time those are not being tested. Windows Subsystem for linux may have issues accessing serial devices.

Since I last used the system there is now a version of Python 3 for 64 bit Win 11 that may or may not have the needed support. Also for a while (maybe still), a separate piece of the code for LZHUF was required that was critical for certain functions of D-RATS to run. I don't know if that is still the case. So the Python interpreter plus the LZHUF issue maybe where your attempt to install D-RATS went south. (The old version did not need the interpreter because it had been compiled to work in Windows).

I had been loading and testing John's new versions, then got derailed by life demands. The old versions (v3) still will load and run OK on my old 2015 Dell Windows 10 based desktop (which just has been replaced by a Win 11 box). I have yet to install any version of Python or D-RATS on the new computer, so you and I will likely go on this journey together.?

I do think I have the new code running on my Win 11 laptop - but it has been a while since I did much with it.

If I have the time (has been scarce lately) to install, I will. I will share with you what the "secret sauce" steps that I discover on the way. Hope that makes it easier.

Jack - KD4IZ

I previously was running D-Rats 0.3.9 under Windows 10 32-bit on a desktop and Windows 11 64-bit on a Lenovo Laptop...and it still works on the desktop computer. I had to stop using the Lenovo Laptop, as the screen started going bad...but I also received an early Christmas/birthday present, with a new Windows 11 Pro Desktop, with 16 GB of RAM, and 1 TB of hard drive space...which has made doing much of my ham radio nets much easier, with the SharkRF OpenSpot 4 Pro.

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However, I tried to get D-Rats 0.3.9 to work on the new computer, and it would not. Is there an additional file I need to download to make it work?? I took a look at D-Rats 0.4.2, but I wasn't sure what I needed to do to activate it, or get it working.

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Any help would be appreciated.

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Daryl, N5VLZ

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