Re: Spanish documentation

2000-08-01 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:34:16PM +, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > The sections of my new document are as follow (and some comments for > them): > 1. Legal stuff (GPL) - I think that GDPL could be better... GNU ``free'' DL isn't really a free license. For example, you can mark every sectio

Re: PPP for Hurd requirements

2000-08-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:58:57PM +0200, Jens Müller wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Marcus Brinkmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Eric Gibson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 9:12 PM > Subject: Re: PPP for Hurd requirements > > > > On Tue, Aug 01, 20

Re: Spanish documentation

2000-08-01 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 03:32:16PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > Thanks! If you think your new organization is easier to follow than the > old one, then it would be great to see translations of your document into > English and other languages. > The sections of my new document are as follow (a

Re: PPP for Hurd requirements

2000-08-01 Thread Jens Müller
- Original Message - From: "Marcus Brinkmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eric Gibson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 9:12 PM Subject: Re: PPP for Hurd requirements > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:54:18PM -0400, Eric Gibson wrote: > > I've also got a framework in my he

Re: _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 not supported (was: Re: WARNING fileutils 4.0x-1 severly broken

2000-08-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ripclaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The Hurd doesn't really support large files at all. The filesystems > > cannot handle partitions larger than ~1 GB, and there is no support > > for the 64-bit interfaces in the "kernel". > > what would be a good starting point in > the source to get > rid

Re: PPP for Hurd requirements

2000-08-01 Thread Roland McGrath
The basic shape of the better plan is well understood. There needs to be some kind of interface to attach to pfinet and provide it with new interfaces via ports. Then daemons a la pppd can be written in similar fashion as using the tun device on BSD. I have some complex ideas on how to do this i

Re: PPP for Hurd requirements

2000-08-01 Thread Eric Gibson
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 12:41:53PM -0700, Matthew Emmett wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > Eric Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > > Here are the results of that task: > > > > http://lyonfyre.net/hurd/ > > > > [...] > > No offence intended, but I found it hard to read the blue on black >

Re: PPP for Hurd requirements

2000-08-01 Thread Matthew Emmett
Hi Eric, Eric Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > > Here are the results of that task: > > http://lyonfyre.net/hurd/ > > [...] No offence intended, but I found it hard to read the blue on black text! So, I took the liberty of changing your style sheet and cleaning up the html a little

Re: PPP for Hurd requirements

2000-08-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 03:30:48PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > > trans/pump.c > > > > in the Hurd CVS, which can sit on top of a hurdish socket node and initiate > > a connection and pass it on to pfinet. It might be useful for PPP, too. > > This is not a good approach to use in the long term.

Re: PPP for Hurd requirements

2000-08-01 Thread Daniel E. Baumann
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Eric Gibson wrote: > Hello All, > > I've been trying to keep up to date with the development of > Hurd. It's very interesting to me. I read the task lists and > assembled a list in my head of things I know I want, and things that > keep getting asked for. Most pressing t

Re: Spanish documentation

2000-08-01 Thread Roland McGrath
> I've written an installation document about GNU/Hurd in spanish. It's > not a translation of the Easy Guide; I have changed all the > organization and I've only take single things from it. Thanks! If you think your new organization is easier to follow than the old one, then it would be great to

Re: PPP for Hurd requirements

2000-08-01 Thread Roland McGrath
> trans/pump.c > > in the Hurd CVS, which can sit on top of a hurdish socket node and initiate > a connection and pass it on to pfinet. It might be useful for PPP, too. This is not a good approach to use in the long term. It is only really viable for the case of exactly one interface.

Spanish documentation

2000-08-01 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, I've written an installation document about GNU/Hurd in spanish. It's not a translation of the Easy Guide; I have changed all the organization and I've only take single things from it. You can find it in http://jmmv.cjb.net/hurd I hope that any other spanish person here could check it an

Re: PPP for Hurd requirements

2000-08-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:54:18PM -0400, Eric Gibson wrote: > Here are the results of that task: > > http://lyonfyre.net/hurd/ Fine. Maybe you should take a look at the file trans/pump.c in the Hurd CVS, which can sit on top of a hurdish socket node and initiate a connection and pass it on to

Re: PPP for Hurd requirements

2000-08-01 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:54:18PM -0400, Eric Gibson wrote: > I've also got a framework in my head for requirements for things > like an installation procedure, Note that we are bound to the Debian installation in some way, and this is probably left until some more foundations are built. The inst

PPP for Hurd requirements

2000-08-01 Thread Eric Gibson
Hello All, I've been trying to keep up to date with the development of Hurd. It's very interesting to me. I read the task lists and assembled a list in my head of things I know I want, and things that keep getting asked for. Most pressing to me was PPP. I started reading the list to see wh

Re[2]: German translation?

2000-08-01 Thread Earl Walker
Tuesday, August 01, 2000, 12:23:24 AM, you wrote: > I meant the Installation Guide everyone is talking of: "The easy guide to > installing Hurd on a Linux box." We have translated it to German, as well as some other Hurd related things. Unfortunately is the (hurd) Server providing our docs down

Russian Translation

2000-08-01 Thread Timofey Korolyov
Hi there! I'm working on the translation of hurd docs. The work is slow, but i think i'll finish it at the end of august. This work is available at http://www.hurd.ru Timofey Korolyov

Re: Documents translation

2000-08-01 Thread Roland McGrath
I think it would be great if the hurddocs project (hurddocs.sourceforge.net) could do a thorough overall infrastructure plan to have translations of all the hurd docs and web pages, i.e. start with the structure to have the whole web tree in parallel in several languages and wait for the individual

Documents translation

2000-08-01 Thread Denis Bodor
Hi, It's very nice to see the people from many countries working on the hurd. I have done somes french documentations, preparing an incoming french hurd web site. I think the "easy guide" is very important for installation steps, but the Thomas Bushnell, BSG's paper is very important too to under