Re: GIMP

[Thomas SCHIEX]

  On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote:

 hello, all,
 
 I tried to install the GIMP and xtar, and when trying to run both, I get
 the same error message:
 
 xtar: can't load library 'libXm.so.2' ...and: gimp: can't load library
 'libXm.so.2'
 
 ???
 

libXm is Motif. You are trying to install software which is dynamically
linked with Motif but you haven't Motif. For GIMP: get version 0.99.13. It
works with its own toolkit (gtk) and does not need motif anymore. Moreover,
it is much more impressive than 0.54.

For Xtar, try to use lesstif (available as a debian package). It is a free
motif clone. 

Thomas




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Controlling the FPU under Linux

[Thomas SCHIEX]

Hello,

I'd like to know if anybody has experience in finely controlling the FPU
under Linux (I'm under Debian 1.3.1). I need to control the rounding mode of
the FPU (rounding up or down instead of to nearest).

I found /usr/include/i386/fpucontrol, but I cannot get the following program
to give at least 2 different results. Any idea ?

Thomas

#include stdio.h
#include math.h
#include fpu_control.h
#include stdlib.h

main()
{
  double a;

  a = 1.0/3.0;
  printf(%.30f\n,a);

  __setfpucw(0x1b72);
  a = 1.0/3.0;
  __setfpucw(0x1372);
  
  printf(%.30f\n,a);

  __setfpucw(0x1772);
  a = 1.0/3.0;
  __setfpucw(0x1372);
  
  printf(%.30f\n,a);
  return(0);
}


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Some help with AMD

[Thomas Schiex]

I'm trying to use amd (the automounter) on several linux boxes. I would like
to use it both for some home accounts which are not local to the machine and
for some specific directories. After having read the man page, the info doc
and /usr/doc/examples I'm still feeling uncapable of using the monstruous
thing.

Does anybody have some COMMENTED examples on how to use AMD ?

1) to manage distant home directory automounting (and let local home
   directories available)

2) to automount a specific directory from another machine ?

Please answer by mail... I do not read debian user on regular basis !

Thomas

NB: using amd upl102-5 The 4.4BSD automounter.


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Problem with GIMP

[Thomas Schiex]

Package: contrib/binary/gimp-smotif_0.54.1-3.deb

Very often, when I use the so-called intelligent scissors in GIMP (with a
bulb lamp icon), on a complex image, the process catch a SIGSEGV after 4 or
5 points have been selected. The package maintainer has not any idea of the
source of the problem. Did anybody out there meet this problem ? and a
solution ?

PS: I do not have motif here and cannot recompile gimp...

Thomas

Re: tex font problems

[Thomas Schiex]

 On Thu, 05 Sep 1996 21:28:37 -0400, Susan G. Kleinmann [EMAIL 
 PROTECTED] said:

Susan Hi Hakan -- You said:
 I am having trouble with the latex font, all non normal characters like
 \{a}, \aa and so on does not show up in the .dvi file. Has anybody else
 moticed this?

Susan As far as I can tell, these are not LaTeX constructions, but TeX
Susan constructions.  I made a silly .tex file with these lines[...]

This is not the reason. Accented characters do work in LaTeX as in
TeX. Actually the following text:

---
\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\a.

\end{document}
---

does produce an umlaut on the a. The problem may come from the fact that you
use a wrong encoding (eg.: you actually typed a real ä using iso-latin1
and you use a US cmr font instead of using the EURO DC font. In this case,
and if you use LaTeX2e style as above, try using

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}). 

So the following text will be Ok (but would'nt w/o the fontenc package).

---
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}

ä

\end{document}
---

(NOTE: You will probably get an error message telling that dcr1000.mf is not
found: the Debian LaTeX DC font installation is FAULTY here (a mismatch
between the version of the DC fonts and the version of the font description
files). Try getting the last version of the DC fonts on a CTAN archive (see
below). You'll find them in

fonts/dc/ready-mf/*

(these files should replace all the files that are in
/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/public/dc/ )

fonts/dc/tfm/*

(these files should relplace all files in 
/usr/lib/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/dc/)


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