Re: Docs format

2000-08-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 12:13:54PM -0500, Cowboy wrote: > I understand that the standard is info files, a reader which I've yet to > get working before a new version come out, or an update to a system, > which renders the working version broken, and the documents unreadable, > or with great dif

Re: Docs format

2000-08-04 Thread Cowboy
>> From: Matthew Emmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cowboy) writes: >> >> > While I agree in principal, and acknowledge that the prefered method does >> > not fit my preference, I submit that there are cases ( such as a crippled >> > system where various word processors will

Re: FAT fs

2000-08-04 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 02:51:34PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it there a FAT translator in order to use dos filesystems int the > Hurd ? I think that there is not any of this out there, but anybody is > working on this ? > > Bye! Markus made a read-only one. It works

Re: Filesystem ideas

2000-08-04 Thread Niels Möller
Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With 'ls -f', things are unsorted in every dir, no matter > if they should be or not. > It would be great help in mc/GUIs if they were sorted by default, only > unsorted in dirs marked ``dont-sort''. The traditional way to do things like that woul

Re: Docs format

2000-08-04 Thread Matthew Emmett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cowboy) writes: > While I agree in principal, and acknowledge that the prefered method does > not fit my preference, I submit that there are cases ( such as a crippled > system where various word processors will not work ) when ANY meta > info within a document is a bad thin

Re: Manual Pages for GNUmach

2000-08-04 Thread Cowboy
>> Wed, 2 Aug 2000 20:41:21 -0500 (EST) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Cowboy) wrote: >> > Can we agree to post 100K attachments to ONE list ? >> > ( or preferably, an FTP site. Perhaps an open site, like mine ) >> > Those of us subscribed to more than one, and some paying by >> > the minute, would appreci

Re: Docs format

2000-08-04 Thread Cowboy
>> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:01:24PM -0500, Cowboy wrote: >> > How about text ? >> > It's 100% compatible with anything. >> >> That's true, and text is a good choice for small snippets like READMEs etc. >> >> However, you can barely convert it to anything useful, because it contains >> no s

Re: disk map

2000-08-04 Thread Mark Kettenis
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 15:08:46 +0200 From: Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all, I've been reading (a bit) the source code of the ext2fs... Why it maps the entire filesystem into vm ? Because that's convenient? :-) Somebody told me here that this way the filesyst

Re: FAT fs

2000-08-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Am Fre, 04 Aug 2000 14:51:34 Juli-Manel Merino Vidal Sie: > Hi all, > > Is it there a FAT translator in order to use dos filesystems int the > Hurd ? I think that there is not any of this out there, but anybody is > working on this ? I wrote a fatfs which can read FAT12/16/32. It does not support

disk map

2000-08-04 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, I've been reading (a bit) the source code of the ext2fs... Why it maps the entire filesystem into vm ? Somebody told me here that this way the filesystem can't be bigger than 1GB. But this only applies to the root filesystem, isn't it ? I've mounted a bigger partition and works fine. Why?

FAT fs

2000-08-04 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, Is it there a FAT translator in order to use dos filesystems int the Hurd ? I think that there is not any of this out there, but anybody is working on this ? Bye! -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Become a GNU! (http://www.gnu.or

Re: Shadowfs

2000-08-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Am Fre, 04 Aug 2000 14:28:26 Juli-Manel Merino Vidal Sie: > Hi all, > > I've been reading about Hurd and found in several places the "shadow > filesystem", but what's that ? It's a good idea: Shadow several filesystems over each other, so you see the content of all of them in a single directory t

Shadowfs

2000-08-04 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, I've been reading about Hurd and found in several places the "shadow filesystem", but what's that ? Thanks. -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Become a GNU! (http://www.gnu.org) Running Debian GNU/Linux woody ---

Re: xgcc (i386-linux->hurd)

2000-08-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Check out the package i386-gnu-gcc in the archive. Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > after fighting for two days and nights building a xgcc I\'ve given up. > My i386->arm xgcc is still working, so I didn\'t mess up my system too much, > but I simply don\'t want to waste more time on s

Re: xgcc (i386-linux->hurd)

2000-08-04 Thread Andreas Rottmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, > > after fighting for two days and nights building a xgcc I\'ve given up. > My i386->arm xgcc is still working, so I didn\'t mess up my system too much, > but I simply don\'t want to waste more time on something that already has > been done hundreds of times. >

xgcc (i386-linux->hurd)

2000-08-04 Thread deb-hurd
Hi, after fighting for two days and nights building a xgcc I\'ve given up. My i386->arm xgcc is still working, so I didn\'t mess up my system too much, but I simply don\'t want to waste more time on something that already has been done hundreds of times. Can anyone give me a pointer to a working

Installation manual

2000-08-04 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, somebody asked me to translate my new install manual from spanish into english. Well, I've done that, but this time I've used texinfo :). You can take a look to it in: http://jmmv.cjb.net/hurd Bye! -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>