[Fink-devel] a2ps-4.12-4 problem printing tex file

2002-04-28 Thread Kilian Koepsell
hi, a2ps does not work with tex file. if i execute % a2ps test.tex the printer just prints garbage. in fact, by sending the output into a file % a2ps test.tex -o testfile [test.tex (tex, delegated to texi2dvi): 1 page on 1 sheet] [Total: 2 pages on 1 sheet] saved into the file `testfile

Re: [Fink-devel] How hard would it...

2002-04-28 Thread Max Horn
At 12:24 Uhr -0400 28.04.2002, Bill Bumgarner wrote: >BTW: If you do a 'fink --yes fetch-missing' and hit ctrl-c in the middle, > it will abort the current download attempt, but continue the >fetch-missing. If you hit ctrl-z and kill the fink process, it >appears that fetch-missing keeps runn

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] fink, dpkg, apt-get and dselect

2002-04-28 Thread Julius Ross
>> >> If so are there plans to make 'fink install' know about .deb files >> available on the net? I ask because currently Fink Commander uses a >> combination of 'fink' and 'apt-get' which can be confusing. > > Yes, I thought about it (and filed a feature request some time ago to > remind m

Re: [Fink-devel] How hard would it...

2002-04-28 Thread Bill Bumgarner
BTW: If you do a 'fink --yes fetch-missing' and hit ctrl-c in the middle, it will abort the current download attempt, but continue the fetch-missing. If you hit ctrl-z and kill the fink process, it appears that fetch-missing keeps running in an orphaned process. Likely as a result of a us

Re: [Fink-devel] Getting stack traces?

2002-04-28 Thread Max Horn
At 12:50 Uhr +0100 27.04.2002, Damian Steer wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Hi, > >I'm currently trying to port the latest version of Amaya (6.0). Alas >it has a rather nasty bug, so the developers have asked for a stack >trace. (They've been very helpful, I should add) >

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] fink, dpkg, apt-get and dselect

2002-04-28 Thread Max Horn
At 13:35 Uhr +0100 28.04.2002, Julius Ross wrote: >On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 02:53 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> >>'fink install', on the other hand, downloads a source file, if needed, and >>builds the package using the C compiler. This is a slower process than >>downloading and installing

Re: [Fink-devel] How hard would it...

2002-04-28 Thread Max Horn
At 11:44 Uhr -0400 28.04.2002, Bill Bumgarner wrote: >I'll give it a try, but it looks like I'll have to patch the whole >downloading thing fairly heavily if I am to make it such that it >runs without human interaction. I figure I'll need to: > > - skip things that have already been downl

Re: [Fink-devel] How hard would it...

2002-04-28 Thread Bill Bumgarner
I'll give it a try, but it looks like I'll have to patch the whole downloading thing fairly heavily if I am to make it such that it runs without human interaction. I figure I'll need to: - skip things that have already been downloaded - only download those packages that change

Re: [Fink-devel] How hard would it...

2002-04-28 Thread David R. Morrison
Since Fink is written in perl and uses curl for downloads, you should be able to install Fink on a linux box and run "fink fetch foo" or "fink fetch-all" with no problem (if that's what you had in mind), assuming you have uptodate versions of perl and curl there. -- Dave __

[Fink-devel] How hard would it...

2002-04-28 Thread Bill Bumgarner
...be to rip out all of the Fink code related to downloading source tarballs and make it portable to multiple platforms? I ask because I have a Linux box on the net that is doing very little [lite mail services, that's it] and I would like to be able to point about a dozen isolated Fink instal

[Fink-devel] openmotif

2002-04-28 Thread Ben Hines
I submitted my openmotif package if anyone would like to help with it. Still a few remaining issues. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=549733&group_id=17203&atid=414256 (why openmotif? well, one app that I am porting, at least, does not like lesstif. That may be true for