Linux-Announce Digest #582, Volume #3 Thu, 2 Sep 99 16:13:24 EDT
Contents:
The Linux Console Data 1999.08.29 (Yann Dirson)
mfm - a gtk+ based frontend for mtools (Christian Ospelkaus)
aRts-0.3.3 - analog realtime synthesizer (Stefan Westerfeld)
LOCAL: Syracuse NY, CNYPCUG Presents Linux (wilcox)
Zgsmplay v1.2 (GSM audio file player with file selector) uploaded (Steven Flintham)
WWW: Software-Building HOWTO update ("M. Leo Cooper")
New Addressbook Application for LINUX ("Andreas Krennmair")
Moscow ML 1.44 for Linux (Peter Sestoft)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yann Dirson)
Subject: The Linux Console Data 1999.08.29
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 18:02:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Release 1999.08.29 of the Linux Console Data is now available from
http://www.multimania.com/ydirson/soft/lct/. It has also been uploaded
to metalab, where it should soon move into /pub/Linux/system/keyboards/.
The Linux Console Data package contains keymaps, fonts, and
translation tables for the Linux Console Tools.
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux:
debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Cheaper, more Powerful, more Stable !
http://www.multimania.com/ydirson/ | Check <http://www.debian.org/>
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From: Christian Ospelkaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mfm - a gtk+ based frontend for mtools
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 18:56:35 GMT
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mfm is a gtk+ based GUI frontend for mtools. It can also perform
simple tasks of a file-manager like deleting files (also recursively).
The home-page of mfm is at http://www.core-coutainville.org/mfm/
To compile mfm, you need gtk+ v1.2
The current version is 0.4 (beta)
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Humboldtstra�e 42
D-53115 Bonn visit http://www.core-coutainville.org !
+49-228-691842
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From: Stefan Westerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: aRts-0.3.3 - analog realtime synthesizer
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 19:00:07 GMT
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aRts 0.3.3 is released.
What is it?
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aRts is an analog realtime synthesizer which is completely modular. You can
create sounds & music (realtime midi synthesis) using small modules like
oscillators for creating waveforms, various filters, modules for playing
data on your speakers, mixers, faders,... You can build your complete setup
with the gui of the system under KDE.
The aRts server is controlled via CORBA. This design is intended to let
other applications use aRts as synthesizer (or filter provider) and
working together in the creation of music.
Requirements:
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mico, KDE
Changes since arts-0.3.2:
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- Support for compiling aRts into one single statically linked binary
- Code cleanups (warning free compilation, common files are now in the
common directory and build as convenience libraries)
- Gui_POTI requires one more arg for the initial value
- New gui objects: Gui_LABEL, Gui_MIXER, Gui_AUDIO_MANAGER
- Work on being able to be a "generic audio server" like esd and
kaudioserver ; artscat is implemented and some audiomanager CORBA/TCP
interface to aRts
- "Bug"fixes: FreeBSD compile fixes, publishing a structure twice with
different ports now works, possible setuid-permissions are dropped now,
removed one bug in freeStructure
- Work on changing string properties, which implies that you can use an
Synth_BUS_UPLINK now and relink the target dynamically, which is
required for instance for the "generic audio server stuff".
- Added Synth_STD_EQUALIZER which allows - in combination with the
Gui_MIXER really nice mixing desks.
- synth_server[.bin] has been renamed to artsserver[.bin]
More information:
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http://linux.twc.de/arts
Download:
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http://arts.linuxbox.com/download/arts-0.3.3.tar.gz
http://linux.twc.de/arts/download/arts-0.3.3.tar.gz
Cu... Stefan
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From: wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Syracuse NY, CNYPCUG Presents Linux
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 18:36:43 GMT
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On Monday September 13,1999 the Central New York PC Users Group will
present a demo and a lecture on Linux.The meeting starts with a question
and answer at 6:30 pm at the Sky Deck in the Carousel Mall and ending no
later than 9:00 PM. This is open to the public, all are welcome. Further
information can be found at HTTP:\\www.cnypcug.org.
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From: Steven Flintham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Zgsmplay v1.2 (GSM audio file player with file selector) uploaded
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 19:05:19 GMT
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[I (Russell Marks) don't have net access, but Steven has been kind
enough to upload/post on my behalf.]
Zgsmplay is a curses-based real-time GSM file player with file
selector. (GSM is a lossy sound compression format ideal for speech.)
In addition to simple playback, zgsmplay lets you move around the
files, etc. A copy of Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann's free GSM
compressor/library is included.
Changes in v1.2:
If stdin isn't a tty, zgsmplay now assumes it is a GSM, and
(non-interactively) plays it.
Many display changes:
*Much* better at coping with `funny' terminal sizes than before. The
display layout when playing a GSM has been slightly rearranged to
allow for this (and also 'cos it looks better :-)).
Handles SIGWINCH, so it sorts things out when you (e.g.) resize an
xterm zgsmplay is running in.
Now uses line-graphics chars throughout, instead of ASCII boxology. :-)
Uses a minutes-only (i.e. hh:mm) mode for time display for files of
10 hours (~56.6 megs) or more.
Now `rounds down' when displaying the position-in-file bar.
Several extra movement keys:
Audio-search movement keys on HJKL do the same as hjkl, but play
quickly (by only playing every 6th frame) to move around the sample
rather than just jumping around.
Cursor left/down/up/right now do the same as hjkl when playing a
sample (this is actually a bugfix, as the man page has always said
that they did this!), and Home acts like `r'.
`e' and End both now go the end of the file and pause.
`1'..`9' jump to n/10 of the way through the file, e.g. `1' gets to
10%, `5' gets to halfway.
You can now use (in the file selector) `-' to untag, and `+' (or
`=') to tag (in addition to the existing keys).
*Finally* fixed long-standing bug where (up to) the last 128ms of a
sample weren't played (unless repeat mode was in effect).
Now reports error if started like `zgsmplay foo.gsm' and foo.gsm
can't be opened. Thanks to Steven Flintham for pointing this problem
out.
You can now specify frame to start from (`-f') in minutes or seconds
with `m' or `s' suffixes.
The position-in-file display should now be accurate right up to the
2-gigs mark (roughly two weeks).
Now dynamically allocates directory array.
The cursor is now hidden if possible. Also fixed annoying little
problem with the cursor - zgsmplay used to leave the cursor alone
while it cleared most of the screen and read the contents of a new
directory, thus leaving it in an effectively random position. Now it
leaves it in the top-left, though this will of course only matter on
terminals which don't have cursor-hiding support.
Updated bundled copy of GSM library to patchlevel 10.
Here's the LSM entry:
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Begin3
Title: zgsmplay
Version: 1.2
Entered-date: 08JUL99
Description: Zgsmplay is a curses-based real-time GSM file player
with file selector. (GSM is a lossy sound compression
format ideal for speech.) In addition to simple
playback, zgsmplay lets you move around the files,
etc. It can also playback in pseudo-stereo, which can
be useful for GSMs of music.
A copy of the free GSM compressor/library is included.
Keywords: sound audio player sample GSM stereo
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russell Marks)
Primary-site: metalab.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/sound/players
96448 zgsmplay-1.2.tar.gz
Copying-policy: GPL
End
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- -Rus.
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From: "M. Leo Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WWW: Software-Building HOWTO update
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 19:03:11 GMT
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The version 1.91 update of the Software-Building HOWTO is now available.
Some bugs have been fixed and quite a bit of new material added.
This HOWTO is for all those wishing to avail themselves of the vast archives
of generic UNIX software packages available. Installation of a source package
originally written for XENIX 10 or 12 years back onto a modern Linux machine
is a somewhat chancy thing, but this HOWTO should help smooth the way.
The HOWTO contains loads of general guidelines and tips, a troubleshooting
section, and 5 detailed examples of difficult installations.
Find out why 'tarballs' are sometimes preferable to 'rpms', and why library
incompatibilities can sometimes derail an otherwise straightforward
installation.
Primary site: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Software-Building-HOWTO.html
[from LDP Home Page]
Secondary site: http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/build.html
[from author's home page]
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From: "Andreas Krennmair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] (dot) (at)
(dot)>
Subject: New Addressbook Application for LINUX
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 19:17:29 GMT
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Hi,
I started designing a new addressbook program for LINUX. It is for console.
Current version is 0.1, version 0.2 is in work, but previews are available.
The program is still a pre-version, and so additional features are
implemented later (if you have any new ideas then tell me them).
Download it from: http://adrlinux.cjb.net/
If you have any problems compiling or installing it, or you've found any new
bugs, then e-mail me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andreas Krennmair
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From: Peter Sestoft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Moscow ML 1.44 for Linux
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 18:57:00 GMT
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Moscow ML provides a light-weight implementation of Core Standard ML,
a strict functional language widely used in teaching and research.
It is based on the Caml Light system, which gives fast compilation and
modest storage consumption.
New in version 1.44 of Moscow ML:
* Interface to the PostgreSQL database server (structure Postgres)
* Interface to the MySQL database server (structure Mysql)
* Interface to POSIX 1003.2 regular expressions (structure Regex)
* Interface to sockets (structure Socket)
* Access to GNU gdbm persistent hashtables (structures Gdbm, Polygdbm)
* Faster bytecode execution (when compiled with GCC or egcs)
* Registration of ML and C functions to simplify callbacks
Moscow ML version 1.44 is available from
http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~sestoft/mosml.html
As before, Moscow ML
* Implements the Core language of Standard ML, as revised 1997
(value polymorphism, default overloading resolution, new types).
* Implements most of the new Standard ML Basis Library, including
the most common input/output facilities in TextIO and BinIO.
* Features an on-line help function.
* Implements separate compilation and a limited version of the
Standard ML Modules language, with signatures and non-nested
structures but no functors.
* Can produce compact stand-alone executables (a la Caml Light).
* Supports quotations and antiquotations, useful for metaprogramming.
* Provides dynamic linking of external functions (Linux, Solaris,
Digital Unix, HP-UX, MacOS, Win'95/98/NT)
SML BASIS LIBRARY
The SML Basis Library is an attempt to rationalize the collection of
built-in types and functions, with the aim of improving portability of
Standard ML programs. Standard ML of New Jersey, Harlequin MLWorks,
and Moscow ML implement the Standard Library.
STAND-ALONE EXECUTABLES
Moscow ML can generate compact linked bytecode files in the style of
Caml Light. A bytecode file calls on the shared runtime system to run
itself.
SIMPLIFIED MODULES LANGUAGE
The sublanguage of Modules implemented by Moscow ML contains
signatures and non-nested structures, and identifies structures with
source files. It is less expressive than the full Standard ML Modules
language, but the type-safe separate compilation facility is simple,
quite useful, and easy to use. It is the intention to implement the
full Standard ML Modules language (including functors) in due course.
SEPARATE COMPILATION
Compilation of a signature produces a compiled interface file, which
is used when compiling other signatures and structures.
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
Intel x86-based PCs running Windows'95, '98 and NT, OS/2, Linux or
FreeBSD; DEC Alpha running Digital Unix (OSF/1); Sun Sparc running
Solaris or SunOS; HP9000 running HP/UX 9 or HP/UX 10; SGI MIPS running
IRIX 5; Macintosh (68k and PPC) running MacOS (thanks to Doug Currie)
or MkLinux.
AUTHOR AND CREDITS
Moscow ML was written by
Sergei Romanenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Miusskaya Pl. 4, 125047 Moscow, Russia.
and Peter Sestoft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),
Department of Mathematics and Physics, Royal Veterinary and
Agricultural University, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C,
Denmark. Much work was done at the Technical University of Denmark
and while visiting AT&T Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA.
Moscow ML owes much to:
* the CAML Light implementation by Xavier Leroy and Damien Doligez
(INRIA, Rocquencourt, France); especially the Caml Light bytecode
generator and the runtime system;
* the ML Kit by Lars Birkedal, Nick Rothwell, Mads Tofte and David Turner
(Copenhagen University, Denmark, and Edinburgh University, Scotland);
* inspiration from the SML/NJ compiler developed at Princeton
University and AT&T Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA; and
* the good work by Doug Currie, Flavors Technology, USA, on the
MacOS port.
AVAILABILITY
* The Moscow ML homepage
http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~sestoft/mosml.html
* Moscow ML library units documentation
http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~sestoft/mosmllib/index.html
* The Linux executables and documentation are in
ftp://ftp.dina.kvl.dk/pub/mosml/linux-mos14bin.tar.gz
* The Unix source files and documentation are in
ftp://ftp.dina.kvl.dk/pub/mosml/mos14src.tar.gz
* The MS Windows 95/98/NT executables and documentation are in
ftp://ftp.dina.kvl.dk/pub/mosml/win32-mos14bin.zip
* The MacOS (68k and PPC) executables and docs and source diffs are in
ftp://ftp.dina.kvl.dk/pub/mosml/MacMoscowML144installer.hqx
* The DOS executables (and documentation) are in
ftp://ftp.dina.kvl.dk/pub/mosml/mos14bin.zip
* The MS Windows 95/98/NT source files are in
ftp://ftp.dina.kvl.dk/pub/mosml/win32-mos14src.zip
* The DOS source files are in
ftp://ftp.dina.kvl.dk/pub/mosml/mos14src.zip
These files are mirrored at
ftp://ftp.csd.uu.se/pub/mirror/mosml
Postscript and PDF versions of the documentation included with the
binaries can be found in ftp://ftp.dina.kvl.dk/pub/mosml/doc/
Peter Sestoft
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Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University * Tel +45 3528 2334
Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark * Fax +45 3528 2350
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