Model Forum / General / Railroads / April 2008

Deepwoods Software is pleased to announce the release of version 2.1.16
of the Model Railroad System.  This package includes a collection of
libraries and programs designed to help the modeler with many of the
more tedious aspects of his or her hobby.  Included are libraries for
communication with Chubb and Lenz XPressNet networks, a user-mode
driver for the Rail Driver control console, a library to parse XTrkCAD
layout files, as well as utilities for computing dropping resistors,
camera view areas, creating railroad time tables, and a switch-list
based freight car forwarder system. There are several updates in
this release:

    Two new programs:

        Dispatcher, a Dispatcher Control Panel Builder. It can also
        load XTrkCAD layout files and draw a graph network of the
        layout, which should be useful (?) in creating dispatcher
        control panels.  This is an alpha release. No Documentation
        yet.

        ModelRRSystem, an experimental launcher with simple window
        manager features.  This is an alpha and experimental release.
        No Documentation yet.

    Minor parser fixes to handle minor changes in XTrkCAD layout files.

    Fixed a pile of problems with the build process.  The system now will
    build in a subdirectory.  This it is possible to build for multiple
    targets from a single source tree.  Yeah!

More information is available at our web site:

http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/

Deepwoods Software is a software and system consultation company,
specializing in Linux system installation and administration and
contract programming in C/C++, Tcl/Tk, FORTRAN and LISP, in a Linux or
UNIX environment. Deepwoods Software also sells low-cost, hassle-free
web hosting.  The staff of Deepwoods Software has over 20 years of
experience in computer programming and over 10 years of Linux system
administration.

http://www.deepsoft.com/