Linux-Announce Digest #416, Volume #3 Fri, 19 Mar 99 19:13:22 EST
Contents:
LOCAL: Southern Tier of New York Linux User Group meeting (STNY LUG) ("Jeremy Impson
(Not Simpson)")
AOLServer external database driver for InterBase (Sebastian Skracic)
pi-address 0.2.13 - X11 based address manager (Michael Wiedmann)
Proftpd 1.20.pre3 RPM and SRPM for Red Hat 5.2 available (James Bourne)
LOCAL: Linux-Installationsparty in Bonn/Germany (Karsten Merker)
Mtools-3.9.4 - use MS-DOS disks without mounting them (Alain Knaff)
Gsh 0.0.12 - Graphical shell (Vaughn Cato)
WWW: Unix Help Site (Alan)
New Linux-Logos (Andreas Stubenrauch)
SVGATextMode-1.9: The End... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LOCAL: New LUG Forming For Southern New Jersey (Info Inside) (Bob Patterson)
WWW: Course Notes - Tcl/tk programming under Linux (Portuguese) (Rildo Pragana)
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From: "Jeremy Impson (Not Simpson)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Southern Tier of New York Linux User Group meeting (STNY LUG)
Date: 19 Mar 1999 22:59:25 GMT
Reply-To: Jeremy Impson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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[Please feel free to pass this to anyone you think may be interested.]
This is an announcement regarding the next meeting of the Southern Tier
of New York Linux User Group (STNY LUG).
It will be held at the offices of the ISP Spectra.Net. Direction details
are below. We will be conducting our own "Holy War" on a variety of topics.
We will be discussing the relative merits of Windowing Systems (fvwm, twm,
KDE, GNOME/Enlightenment) and shells (bash, sh, ksh, csh, tcsh, ash). We
might even break into "emacs vs vi" if we are feeling raucous!
The rest of the session will be the same old thing: laughing, eating, and
talking about all things computer, especially about Linux and Open Source
software.
Date: March 23, 1999
Time: 7 pm
Where: Spectra.Net
271 Main St.
Johnson City, NY 13790
Directions:
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=271+Main+St.&csz=Johnson+City%2C+NY&Get+Map=Get+Map
Come with ideas for future LUG activities, or with problems you are having with
your home/work system!
The current location for the STNY LUG web site can be seen here:
http://home.stny.lrun.com/avatar/LUG
but it will be moving (soon, hopefully) to
http://stnylug.org
- --Jeremy Impson
Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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Jeremy Impson Linux, Perl, and Network geek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://source.syr.edu/~jdimpson
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From: Sebastian Skracic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AOLServer external database driver for InterBase
Date: 19 Mar 1999 19:01:24 GMT
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External database driver
This driver is implemented as standalone executable. Once started,
it acts as a database proxy daemon which translates AOLServer
database requeste into InterBase specific API calls. AOLServer
communicates with proxy daemon via TCP/IP, so they can be running
on different hosts.
By separating external driver to another host, we can access
databases for which no client library is available on platform
AOLserver runs. An example for this would be InterBase 4.0 running on
Linux host which we want to connect to AOLServer running on Solaris
box. Let's assume that InterBase client library is not available
for Solaris. So we build external db driver on Linux host using
available Linux InterBase client library. Now AOLServer on Solaris
and proxy daemon on Linux can talk to each other using AOLServer's
database-independent external data source protocol.
..... and the bad news:
Development of internal version is abandoned because InterBase client
API is not thread safe. Therefore, if you're still using it, you
are urged to migrate to external version.
..... however:
You can still use the same InterBase datasource and the same C/Tcl
scripts you developed so far.
Current release: 1.0.0
More info: <URL:http://www.lavsa.com/sskracic/aolinterbase/>
Regards,
Sebastian Skracic
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From: Michael Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pi-address 0.2.13 - X11 based address manager
Date: 19 Mar 1999 19:01:45 GMT
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This is the announcement of V0.2.13 of 'pi-address',
an X11 based GUI frontend to the address database of a 3Com Palm Pilot.
You will find the archive at the usual place:
- - ftp://linux.in-berlin.de/pub/pilot/pi-address.tar.gz
(this is always a symlink to the newest version)
and after a short delay at the following mirror site:
- - ftp://pv915.pv.reshsg.uci.edu/pub/pilot/pi-address-0.2.13.tar.gz
The Solaris (Sparc) binary can be found after a short delay at:
- - ftp://linux.in-berlin.de/pub/pilot/binaries/solaris/.
An updated version of the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) is already
in place at:
- - http://www.in-berlin.de/User/miwie/pia/
New in 0.2.13:
* Modified Makefile to better support building of a Debian package.
* Function to delete all records which belong to the current selected
category (except if the current category is �Unfiled� or �All�),
selectable through the right mouse button popup dialog (Thanks for
Jim Nicholson for suggesting this).
* Set category of imported records to the current selected category
(Thanks for Jim Nicholson for suggesting this).
* Truncate display if there is an embedded CR
* Separate display of Last Name and First Name by comma
Have fun
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Bourne)
Subject: Proftpd 1.20.pre3 RPM and SRPM for Red Hat 5.2 available
Date: 19 Mar 1999 19:01:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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We have posted the i386.rpm and src.rpm on our WWW site at
http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca/software/ for proftpd-1.2.0pre3. These
should work on Red Hat 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 but were compiled under Red Hat 5.2
and kernel 2.2.3.
ProFTPD is a highly configurable ftp daemon for unix and unix-like
operating systems. It features virtual hosting, default root directories,
and a completely new (not based on other implementations) source tree.
Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here is information on the package:
cafe:bash$ rpm -qi proftpd-rhcn
Name : proftpd-rhcn Distribution: Red Hat Contrib|Net
Version : 1.2.0pre3 Vendor: Affinity Systems Inc.
Release : 1 Build Date: Sat Mar 13 01:35:59
1999
Install date: Sat Mar 13 01:37:36 1999 Build Host: cafe.affinity-systems.ab.ca
Group : Networking/Daemons Source RPM: proftpd-rhcn-1.2.0pre3-1.src.rpm
Size : 497784 License: GPL
Packager : Red Hat Contrib|Net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
URL : http://www.proftpd.org/
Summary : Proftpd ftp server
Description :
ProFTPD is a highly configurable ftp daemon for unix and unix-like
operating systems. It features virtual hosting, default root directories,
and a completely new (not based on other implementations) source tree.
and the changelog:
cafe:bash$ rpm -q --changelog proftpd-rhcn
* Sat Mar 13 1999 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- - updated to version 1.2.0pre3
* Fri Feb 12 1999 James Bourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- - Original build
Regards,
Jim
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James Bourne | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Affinity Systems Inc. | WWW: http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca
Everything Unix | Linux: The choice of a GNU generation
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From: Karsten Merker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Linux-Installationsparty in Bonn/Germany
Date: 19 Mar 1999 19:01:52 GMT
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[Note to English Readers:
This is an announcement for a Linux Installfest in Bonn/Germany, so the
rest of the text is in German.]
Die Bonner Linux User Group (BoLUG) veranstaltet in Zusammenarbeit mit dem
Regionalen Hochschulrechenzentrum (RHRZ) der Universitaet Bonn eine
L I N U X - I N S T A L L A T I O N S P A R T Y
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Wann: Freitag, d. 09.04.99 von 14.00-19.00 Uhr
Samstag, d. 10.04.99 von 11.00-17.00 Uhr
Wo: Im Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Bonn
1. Stock, Raum 101
Wegelerstrasse 6
53115 Bonn
Die Installationsparty bietet die Gelegenheit, Linux mit fachkundiger
Begleitung durch ehrenamtliche Helfer auf dem eigenen Rechner zu
installieren. Fuer ueber die Installation hinausgehende Probleme
wie die Einrichtung von Internetzugang, News- und Webserver, UUCP und
anderen Dingen stehen selbstverstaendlich ebenfalls Ansprechpartner zur
Verfuegung, und wer sich einfach nur ueber Linux informieren und es
einmal "live" sehen moechte, ist natuerlich auch herzlich eingeladen.
Kontaktadresse: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Telefon: 0228/263440 (ab 19.00 Uhr, sonst ggf. AB)
Es wird darum gebeten, dass sich die Teilnehmer, die einen eigenen Rechner
mitbringen, vorher kurz per EMail oder Telefon bei der vorstehenden
Kontaktadresse anmelden, so dass im Vorfeld Fragen zur vorhandenen
Hardware, zur voraussichtlichen Ankunftszeit u.ae. geklaert werden
koennen. Fuer Fragen steht die BoLUG jederzeit unter der vorgenannten
Adresse/Telefonnummer zur Verfuegung.
Jeweils aktuelle Informationen zur Installationsparty finden sich unter
http://bolug.uni-bonn.de/, eine Anfahrtsskizze zum RHRZ der Uni Bonn
steht unter http://www.uni-bonn.de/rhrzinfo/rhrz-weg.html.
K. Merker
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Nach Paragraph 28 Abs. 3 Bundesdatenschutzgesetz widerspreche ich der Nutzung
oder Uebermittlung meiner Daten fuer Werbezwecke oder fuer die Markt- oder
Meinungsforschung.
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From: Alain Knaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mtools-3.9.4 - use MS-DOS disks without mounting them
Date: 19 Mar 1999 19:01:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I would like to announce a new release of mtools, a collection of
utilities to access MS-DOS disks from Unix without mounting them.
Mtools supports Win'95 style long file names, FAT32, OS/2 Xdf disks
and 2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2 disk). Mtools
also includes mpartition, a simple partitioning programing to setup
Zip and Jaz media on non-PC machines (SunOs, Solaris and HP/UX).
Mtools can currently be found at the following places:
http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools
http://mtools.linux.lu/mtools
and soon at:
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/mtools-3.9.4.tar.gz
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/mtools-3.9.4.tar.gz
(will be moved to
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/mtools-3.9.4.tar.gz)
The md5sum is:
852f99f67cb2c47b0e72f4972292064e mtools-3.9.4.tar.gz
Mtools-3.9.4 introduces the following new features over 3.9.1:
* It correctly handles disks bigger than 2GB.
* Mtools can now be used to create DOS/Windows installations on a
virgin hard disk (useful for example for schools, which need to reinstall
their computers frequently):
- Mformat's -B option (to create bootable partitions) now works
correctly
- Mpartition now has a similar -B option to make a bootable hard
disk, by installing a master boot record
- Mattrib has a "replay" option, which allows to take a snapshot
of the attributes of all files of a template installation. This
snapshot is a list of mattrib commands that can be run to restore
the same attributes on the copied installation
* Floppyd daemon to remotely access floppy disks attached to a remote
X workstation
* Experimental support for Raw SCSI devices on BSD
N.B. Both versions 3.9.2 and 3.9.3 are bad, and may still float
around some ftp sites. Please don't use them. It might also be
careful to wait a couple of days before starting to trust 3.9.4. Oh,
gawd, what a nightmare
There is an mtools mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] To
subscribe to it, send a message containing 'subscribe mtools' in its
body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing list archives are at
http://www.tux.org/hypermail/mtools
Before submitting a bug report, check whether your problem has not
yet been fixed in one of the Alpha patches at:
http://www.ltnb.lu/Alain.Knaff/mtools or
http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools
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From: Vaughn Cato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gsh 0.0.12 - Graphical shell
Date: 19 Mar 1999 19:02:04 GMT
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Gsh is designed to do two things:
1) be a comfortable environment for people who are already accustomed
to using a Unix shell.
2) make operations that are difficult or awkward with a normal shell
easier by having the shell take advantage of a graphical environment.
Some of the features include:
* context sensitive popup menu that gives you a list of commands based
on what is currently selected.
* user confurable menu for commonly used commands.
* the ability to run multiple commands simultaneously and keep the
output separate.
* special colors that differentiate commands from output; running
commands from completed commands; etc.
Please visit the Gsh Home Page at
http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/atl/v/c/vcato/gsh/
This is the first development release of Gsh. It is being developed
under Linux, but has also been tested to some extent under Irix. I am
interested in making it usable under any Unix-like system. Gsh is
distributed under the GPL.
Comments, suggestions, and bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WWW: Unix Help Site
Date: 19 Mar 1999 19:02:10 GMT
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I am the webmaster of a Unix Help site/portal that is looking for some
publicity. It is a great place to learn about all the variants of Unix,
and provides lots of links to very useful documentation.
The URL is http://www.unixpower.org
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| Alan L. * Webmaster of www.UnixPower.org |
| Windsor Unix Users Group Founder: http://unix.windsor.on.ca/ |
| Personal Page: http://www.unixpower.org/alanp/ |
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From: Andreas Stubenrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New Linux-Logos
Date: 19 Mar 1999 19:02:18 GMT
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Due to the demand of some more (and more general usable) Linux-Pics
we've done some artwork wich is now available on:
http://www.gigaperls.org/linux/
Insipred by Tux there are more penguins awaiting your download and
usage.
Feel free to comment or even ask for more. (There are more to come
anyway)
stubus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SVGATextMode-1.9: The End...
Date: 19 Mar 1999 19:02:23 GMT
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SVGA textmode manipulation/enhancement tool.
SVGATextMode uses extra features found on SVGA video cards (high pixel
clocks) to enhance Linux text modes, independently of what the BIOS can
do. It is configured with an XF86Config-like file, and allows setting of
pixel clock, H/V timings, font size, cursor size, etc.
It enables using the video card AND the monitor to their full potential
in textmode, as with the XFree86 X-server. Current support includes S3,
Tseng Labs, Cirrus Logic, Trident, Western Digital, ATI, ATI MACH8,
MACH32 and MACH64CT, Video7 (Headland), Avance Logic (ALI), Oak
Technology (OTI), SiS, RealTek, ARK, NCR, Genoa (GVGA), MX, Matrox
(Millennium and Mystique), NeoMagic and RIVA128 chips.
It can also use an external clock program and supports all S3 clock
chips from XFREE 3.3. Features automatic font loading, monitor
definition (H/V frequency limits), on-the-fly screen resizing, cursor
shape definition, ...
Also includes: palette changer, pixelclock probe, text/graphics mode
grabber, VGA register hacking tool, and a multi-chipset/clockchip
ClockProg for X that supports ALL chipsets and clockchips from
SVGATextMode.
Binaries for Linux-ELF included for SVGATextMode and grabmode. NOTE that
these are libc5 binaries. you will have to download the source package
to compile libc6 binaries.
Changes relative to the previous version:
- - fix sync polarity bug in Ti3026 Sync-On-Green code (Giacomo COMES)
- - update vgaset's licensing to GPL (Igor Grobman/Debian, Greg Lehey)
- - fix the bogus H/V VGA register upper limits. Especially vertically the
limit was 4096, but should have been 1023 instead, which caused a lot of
modes that appeared to stretch far below the bottom of the screen). Also
fix all modelines that violated this constraint in the TextConfig file.
(with help from Udo van den Heuvel)
NOTE that this change will cause errors when used on pre-1.9 textconfig
files. You will have to update your TextConfig file.
- - don't bail out when ResetProg or FontProg doesn't exist (suggested by
Igor Grobman, Debian)
- - don't allow ANYONE to run STM from a non-virtual terminal, add "-x"
option to override this (suggested by Yann Dirson, Debian)
- - set default fontpath to empty string, because "setfont" knows it as
well (suggested by Yann Dirson, Debian)
- - add Neomagic support (Pavel Machek)
- - add "-k" option to disable software resize (hardware is resized)
(Pavel Machek)
- - add MACH64 Rage II support (should now support all MACH64 boards with
internal programmable clock)
- - integrate RIVA128 support from Martijn van Oosterhout.
- - fix segfault in ET6000 "special" code
- - LOTS of extra free fonts (Frank Klemm)
And now some bad news: this might very well be the last ever release of
SVGATextMode. I have decided to stop development on this package, for
several reasons (only the technical reasons are mentionned below :-) :
* reduced interest in SVGATextMode, as hardware is getting so fast and
memory so abundant that running Xwindows all of the time is no longer a
problem. Older machines not comfortable with X are generally supported
by STM.
* Linux 2.2 (and newer versions) contain kernel support for graphical
textmodes (vesafb). Although it uses a totally different approach than
STM, it can replace most of its functionality.
* it is getting more and more difficult to get suitable documentation
from VGA chip makers, especially for a niche product like SVGATextMode.
Even the XFree86 people are running into this obstacle every day. It is
impossible to write an SVGATextMode driver without those docs.
* It is also extremely difficult to write a good driver for hardware I
don't have. I obviously don't want to buy every new VGA card, and
donations are extremely rare (I count ONE in the four years of STM's
existence).
* most recent VGA cards are very louzy textmode performers. Actually all
the ones I could check are bad. This is due to the use of synchronous
memories, as explained in the FAQ. This means an STM driver is less and
less attractive compared to a graphical solution like the linux VESAFB.
Modern VGA controllers are much more difficult to set up. More work for
less results? Hmm...
* GGI, if it ever matures, will also be able to replace STM, and it will
actually be much less of a risk in terms of screwing up your text
console...
* SciTech Software has an SVGATextMode-like tool in their SciTech
Display Doctor for Linux. It supports a LOT more hardware than
SVGATextMode. But it's commercial of course...
Thanks to all the people who contributed in some way. The list is long,
but you know who you are.
Koen.
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Subject: LOCAL: New LUG Forming For Southern New Jersey (Info Inside)
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Mainly for Camden, Burlington and Gloucester Counties (but is open to
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Subject: WWW: Course Notes - Tcl/tk programming under Linux (Portuguese)
Date: 19 Mar 1999 19:02:31 GMT
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Hi fellows,
I have just started writing a book (in portuguese) for my short course
"Linux programming in tcl/tk".
I'll be updating it each 2/3 days from now on. It is fully illustrated
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