Linux-Announce Digest #456, Volume #3 Fri, 16 Apr 99 23:13:23 EDT
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COMMERCIAL: Linux Journal June 1999 (Darcy Whitman)
SHAREWARE: POSC Units Converter v1.01 ("Dan R. Schenck")
SmIRC 0.70pre1 - Motif IRC client ("Sam")
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From: Darcy Whitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Linux Journal June 1999
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 22:43:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The June 1999 issue of Linux Journal (#62) will be mailed from the
printers in Waseca, Minnesota on May 12, 1999.
Linux Journal
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Table of Contents -- Linux Journal #62 -- June 1999
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Features
* The Past and Future of Linux Standards by Daniel Quinlan
A look at the history and goals of the Linux Standards
BaseProject.
* The Distributions Take a Stand on Standards by Norman M.
Jacobowitz
The distributions voice their opinions on Linux standards.
Forum
* Linux Clusters at NIST by Wayne J. Salamon and Alan Mink
* Introduction to Sybase, Part 1: Setting Up the Server by Jay
Sissom
* CORBA Program Development, Part 2 by J. Mark Shacklette and Jeff
Illian
* Stephen Wockner of the TAB of Queensland by Bob Hepple
* Minivend--the Electronic Shopping Cart by Kaare Rasmussen
Reviews
* Product Reviews
+ WordPerfect 8 for Linux by Michael Scott Shappe
+ Metro Link Motif Complete! by Liam Greenwood
+ TclPro v1.1 by Daniel Lazenby
* Book Reviews
+ Developing Imaging Applications with XIElib by Michael J.
Hammel
+ The Linux Network by Duane Hellums
Columns
* Take Command: The awk Utility by Louis J. Iacona
* Linux Means Business: Making Money in the Bazaar by Bernie
Thompson The Other Shoe by Doc Searls
* System Administration: Root File System on RAID by Martin Schulze
* Kernel Korner: IP Bandwidth Management by Jamal Hadi Salim
* At the Forge: Sending Mail via the Web, Part 2 by Reuven M. Lerner
* Focus on Software: by David A. Bandel
Departments
* Letters to the Editor
* Focus: Standards by Marjorie Richardson
* Penguin's Progress: The Other Shoe by Doc Searls
* Stop the Presses: linux.com by Marjorie Richardson
* Best of Technical Support
* New Products
+ PCI-Fibre Channel RAID Controllers, ICP vortex Corporation
+ Applix SHELF 1.3, Applix, Inc.
+ HELIOS Products for Linux, HELIOS Software GmbH
+ Enhydra, Lutris Technologies
+ LDAP Proxy Server 2.0, Innosoft International
+ DeveloperX2 2.1, NetBeans, Inc.
+ System Manager in a Box, PegaSoft Canada
+ ResQ!Net and ResQ!Net for IBM's Host-On-Demand, ResQNet.com,
Inc.
+ SNAPIX 3.1.18, ADNT
+ Sophos Anti-Virus for Linux, Sophos Inc.
+ WebFOCUS, Information Builders
+ PC ParaChute, UniTrends Software Corporation
+ Web+ 4.0, TalentSoft/Talent Information Management
+ Helius Satellite Router, Helius, Inc.
* Advertisers Index
* Linux Consultants HOWTO
Strictly On-line
* Pro-Lite Scrolling Message Signs by Walter Stoneburner
* PPR: PostScript Printer Spooling by Oliver Tharan
* Linux in Schools by Rob Bellville
* Linux for Enterprise-Resource Planning by Uche Ogbuji
* Linux Web Server Toolkit by Keith P. de Solla
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From: "Dan R. Schenck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SHAREWARE: POSC Units Converter v1.01
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:56:49 GMT
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POSC is pleased to announce the availability of the POSC Universal Units
Converter v1.01, a units conversion program built with Tcl/Tk 8.0 and
BWidgets.
You may download the software at http://www.posc.org.
Changes from v1.0 are as follows:
1) Reworded the calculator buttons to improve understanding of their
function.
2) Made changes to accommodate UNIX installation as follows:
a) Shipped proxy.dat file defaulted to "no proxy."
b) Changed Readme to alert sysadmin to a) above.
c) Changed the program to disable update of units data and edit
of proxy data if user does not have write permission to the
UConvert directory.
d) Corrected an error where certain binary image files in the UNIX
distribution were corrupted.
See the Readme file below for additional details.
Dan Schenck mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
POSC http://www.posc.org
Houston, Tx
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03/31/1999
POSC Universal Units Converter 1.0
Copyright (c) 1999, POSC. All rights reserved.
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WHAT IS THE POSC UNIVERSAL UNITS CONVERTER?
It is a units conversion program that easily and quickly shows
equivalencies for everything from common units such as feet in a
mile to obscure units such as therms in a joule.
A calculator function is included with the converter to allow
easy conversion from any number of units to the equivalent
number of "other" units.
Units are indexed by categories. This lets you find all the
valid units for a specific category. For example, for the
category "frequency," you can easily see the valid units are
cycles/second, Hertz, radians/second and revolutions/minute.
(The converter then lets you convert any of these units to any
of the other units.)
The POSC Universal Units Converter is based on POSC standard
reference data for units conversion. It comes preloaded with
the current units reference data as defined in the POSC
Specifications V2.2.2. Using a menu option of the program, a
user connected to the Internet may request the latest available
reference data to be downloaded from the POSC web site at any
time.
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VERSION
This is Version 1.0 of the POSC Universal Units Converter.
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
The POSC Universal Units Converter is written in Tcl/Tk and runs
on either UNIX or Windows 9x/NT. To use the program therfore,
you must have first installed Tcl/Tk 8.0 or newer on your system.
The latest version of Tcl/Tk 8.0 is available from Scriptics
Corporation at the following URL:
http://www.scriptics.com/software/8.0.html.
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INSTALLATION AND USE
- - On UNIX:
1) Uncompress the file UConvert.tar.Z in a directory of your
choice. This will result in a new subdirectory called UConvert
which contains the executable, UConvert, and all other necessary
files.
e.g. - % cd /myprogramdir
% uncompress UConvert.tar.Z
% tar -xf UConvert.tar
2) You may need to edit the second line of the executable file
UConvert to point to the Tcl/Tk 8.0 version of wish on your
system.
3) The program is set up to assume no proxy is needed for web
access. If you use a proxy server, the system administrator
should run the program as root and edit the proxy
information prior to general use.
To execute the program:
% cd /myprogramdir/UConvert
% UConvert&
- - On Windows:
1) Extract the files from UConvert.zip into a temporary
directory.
2) Execute the program Setup.exe in the extract directory and
follow the installation instructions.
To execute the program, either:
1) Double click on the UConvert shortcut on the desktop, or
2) Select the UConvert program from Start/Programs/UConvert
menu or
3) Double click on the UConvert.tcl file in the installation
directory specified during setup (e.g.,
C:/Program Files/POSC/UConvert).
Note: For the above to work, you must have associated the
.tcl file extension with a version of wish 8.0. The
default installation of Tcl/Tk from Scriptics does
this for you automatically.
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UNINSTALL
- - On UNIX:
1) Remove the directory you initially uncompressed the files in.
- -On Windows:
1) Go to the Add/Remove Programs function from the control
Panel and select POSC Universal Units Converter for removal.
2) Select the Uninstall option in the Start/Programs/UConvert
menu for the POSC Units Converter.
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ISSUES
All calculations are done using double precision math. This
causes some loss of precision for certain conversions. A higher
level of precision for calculations is possible using a Tcl
extension. If you have an interest in seeing high precision
calculations added to UConvert, please contact Dan Schenck at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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LICENSE
This program is distributed as shareware. If you find it useful
and use it for more than a trial period of 30 days, you are
asked to pay POSC a fee of $10.00 US. The fee is payable in US
dollars drawn on a US bank. See the file Registration.txt for
details on how to pay the shareware fee and register your usage
of this software. See the file License.txt for the software
license agreement.
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HOW TO CONTACT POSC
POSC
Suite 275
10777 Westheimer
Houston, TX 77042
Voice: +1 (713) 784-1800
Fax: +1 (713) 784-9219
Web: http://www.posc.org
To report bugs, provide suggestions for improvement or ask
questions about this product, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SmIRC 0.70pre1 - Motif IRC client
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:55:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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SmIRC is an X11 IRC client based on the Motif widget set. The current
stable version is 0.62b. New features in the forthcoming version 0.70
will include automatic window iconification/deiconification, ability to
play sounds, and other miscellaneous enhancements.
This is a pre-release of version 0.70, and may not be stable. You will
need Motif libraries to compile from the source code. Precompiled RPMs
and tarballs of the glibc binary statically linked with Motif are
available.
For more information, see:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/5799/smirc.html
Download the source code and the precompiled binaries from:
ftp://ftp.undernet.org/irc/clients/xwindows/smirc/beta
The current stable version 0.62b is still at:
http://www.wildstar.net/irc/clients/xwindows/smirc/index.html
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Title: smirc
Version: 0.70pre1
Entered-date:12APR99
Description: SmIRC is an X11R6 IRC client, based on the Motif widget set.
This release has most of the functionality expected from an IRC
client. The only major missing feature is DCC.
Everything else usually expected from an IRC client is included.
The interface is designed to be simple, short, and sweet.
SmIRC's look and feel is highly customizable, via its resource
file.
Runtime help pages are provided in an HTML format. You will
need an HTML browser (lynx is fine) to read them.
You will need Motif 2.1 libraries to compile the source code.
If you do not have Motif 2.1 libraries, you can try running the
provided ELF binary which is statically-linked with the Motif
library.
In addition to the above, SmIRC needs a machine with plenty of
RAM in order to compile the source code. Some modules take as
much as 22-23MB to compile. Your machine should have at least
16MB of physical RAM, and 16MB of swap in order to be able to
compile the source code.
The 0.70pre1 release can be obtained from ftp.undernet.org,
as indicated below. The current stable version, 0.62b, can
be also obtained from metalab.unc.edu, and ftp.nstc.com.
Keywords: smirc, irc, freeware, linux, unix, motif, X, X11, X11R6
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam Varshavchik)
Maintained-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam Varshavchik)
Primary-site: ftp.undernet.org /irc/clients/xwindows/smirc/beta
827 Kb smirc-0.70pre1.tar.gz
1121 Kb smirc-0.70pre1.bin.static.tgz
829 Kb smirc-0.70pre1-1.src.rpm
241 Kb smirc-0.70pre1-1.i386.rpm
418 Kb smirc-common-0.70pre1-1.i386.rpm
711 Kb smirc-static-0.70pre1-1.i386.rpm
Alternate-site: metalab.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/network/chat
Alternate-site: ftp.nstc.com /pub/software/unix/
Copying-policy: GPL
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