On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 13:48 +1200, Don Gould wrote:
> Do they have plans for HSDPA?
I am unsure if they have plans for HSDPA. I guess so, but a Google
should confirm it ☺
The OpenMoko is a GSM (GPRS, not HSDPA) phone.
> Anyone know what file(s) control the associations?
Possibly
/usr/share/application-registry/*
The Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act has many good points. For
example, ISPs do not breach copyright by holding a copy of a work,
either in a cache or elsewhere on the system, such as on a Web page that
they run for a user (the ISP was in breach before). The Act also allows
time-shifting,
Much like Zane, I write documents using a normal text-editor (gedit, in
my case) and then use xmllint to verify that what I wrote is sane.
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> I'm looking for a local supplier of a PC/device suitable for use as an
> industrial data logger/controller.
Bluewater systems
http://bluewatersys.com/
sell ARM-based development kits, that run Linux out of the box. They are
quite powerful devices, and have many ways of communicating with
> Hmm. Perhaps I can set my colour scheme to back ye olde nice gloomy
> "green screen"...
If you want gloomy, you can always try the “High Contrast Inverse” GNOME
theme. Or is the large print variant needed… ☺
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>
> Does anyone know how to use choot? I followed the man age and ran
> "sudo chroot Desktop/", but it gave an error
That is probably because there is not "bin" directory in your Desktop ☺
The "change root" command is used to change where the root-directory
("/") is. The only time I can ever re
uch RAM to use, but you can set it manually, by passing the
"VideoRam" option to the device (see xorg.conf(5))
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path/to/mount/point
The phrase you were looking for, Kerry, was "loopback". :)
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On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 13:37 +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> ...and you need to be careful about getting the timezones correct.
…and the clocks are often wrong.
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ear of it :)
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se off to me too?
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On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 17:07 +1300, Kerry Mayes wrote:
> Can anyone forsee any problems?
Graphics :)
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On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:22 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2 minutes googling found this, but you may have already found it:
I have been doing a lot of Googling as of late :) I had not read the
page in particular, but I have tried what it suggested.
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On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 10:13 +1300, Richard Graham wrote:
> Have you tried the 915resolution program?
Yes I have tried the 915resolution program, which is how I managed to
get the local LCD monitor going.
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On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 10:01 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> For non-standard ( in X terms ) resolutions, of which 1680x1050 is
> one, you still need to add modelines...
You do not *need* modelines: the 1440x900 works fine without them.
Thanks for the "gtf" tip :)
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round with the multi-head options in the X11
configuration, to see if that will help things. Suggestions will be much
appreciated.
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On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 15:41 +1300, Craig FALCONER wrote:
> Vi for the win... But there's no ESC kep on most phones
>
> Emacs couldn't do it - no meta/control keys
Most cellphones have at least two soft-keys that can be programed to do
what you want ☺
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On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 13:29 +1300, Roy Britten wrote:
> http://ie7.com/
I like ☺
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On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 14:56 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote:
> I have googled but not yet found the apt-get command to show the version of
> an
> installed package.
$ dpkg -l
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A hint, for those who want to try out the spell-checking feature of
Firefox 2 RC1: you have to install a dictionary to get it to work
(despite selecting a language when you download the browser ☺).
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On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 11:02 +1200, Ross Drummond wrote:
> Can anybody recommend a cursive font (joined up writing) that works in
> most browsers?
font-family: cursive;
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/CSS21/fonts.html
The goal of CSS2.1 was to put the features of CSS2 that had a chance of
being supported in the browsers. However, the more ambitious CSS3 has
the font downloading specification back in
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-webfonts/
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On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 20:22 +1200, Chris Hellyar wrote:
> The firefox/mozilla folks would also have to have logs for brains to
> allow download of a binary file without interaction with the user.
Like images?
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ycar.co.nz mail is handled by 15 mercury.jaycar.com.au.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host www.jaycar.co.nz
www.jaycar.co.nz has address 202.74.164.242
The University of Canterbury do the same thing.
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ot;c" or "x" (create or extract).
*Normally* tar-files create folders, which have the same name as the
file sans-extensions. Note this is the opposite to what Zip files
*normally* do under Windows.
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The other day, a friend of mine — after contemplating the blue-screen
that his XP tablet decided to display — looked up and mused about the
state of pen-based computing on Linux ☺. (GTK+ 2.10 now ships standard
with the ability to go into pen-input, and QT is not half bad at it
either, if you were
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 13:31 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Do it the easy way... html.
Ha! (I can assure you that getting HTML/CSS to do what you want is often
quite hard ☺)
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 17:39 +1200, Ross Drummond wrote:
> Anyone on the list have any recommendations for a tabular style that is easy
> to use and fully featured?
My LaTeX Companion is elsewhere at the moment, but I can recall that the
array style is quite good.
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 13:43 +1200, david merriman wrote:
> http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/06sep/ufng009504.gif
I gave up on them both and settled on Screem. (Nice to see the return of
Marvin the Martian.)
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 08:44 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> Would you like a sinclair spectrum for your museum?
I am almost sure they already have one :)
I think a spot of explanation is need, for those new to Linux.
Unlike Windows and MacOS, X11 [1] has two clipboards. One is used when
parts of a document are cut and pasted using the edit-menu and the cut,
copy and paste keys (such as Control-x, Control-c, and Control-v). It
behaves much like the
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 13:17 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote:
> ** Can someone tell me how to detect if a file exists using bash?
man test
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 16:41 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
> Can Ubuntu handle rpm’s?
Short answer: No.
Middle-sized answer: No, Ubuntu uses “deb” (Debian) packages.
Long answer: Yes, if you install and use the "alien" package, which
will allow you to transform the RPM into a Deb.
> A
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 16:50 +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> How do you change the preferred browser?
In GNOME: System→ Preferences→ Preferred Applications
(I will leave others to do their desktop of choice ☺)
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 12:23 +1200, John Carter wrote:
>
> > What has happened to clug?
> > Where is all the nitty-gritty tech debate? (the hard stuff)
>
> Blame Ubuntu.
I felt the same way this morning. My workmate had a nice Logitec USB
headphone-microphone combination, which worked fine on his
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 15:27 +1200, Don Gould wrote:
> Then run 'make' again followed by 'make install'
>
> This has all been done as root.
Generally the "make" can be done by a normal user, but the install
generally requires root-permissions :)
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 15:25 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> Oh sorry, I thought freedom was all about *my* choice. :)
No, it is about choice for everyone :)
And Ubuntu force GNOME on you because it is better than KDE.
☺
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 11:43 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> A file's data and its directory-related matadata are two different
> things in Unix. When a file is created, the link count is one. When you
> add a (hard!-)link to it, the count is increased, when you delete a
> "file", the count is decre
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 17:02 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> Everyone else probably knew this ages ago, but i just thought I'd
> share my discovery that if you hover your scroll mouse over the kmix
> applet in the panel you can make the volume go up and down with the
> scroll wheel. Cool, saves a few clic
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 14:02 +1200, Roy Britten wrote:
> gftp
>
> Nice if you like drag 'n' drop.
Nautilus will also support FTP :)
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 13:45 +1200, Roger Searle wrote:
> Hi, can anyone recommend an ftp client programme?
I am quite fond of ftp at the command line :)
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 11:23 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> Anyone have it yet?
>
I checked with my Ubuntu updater this morning and it did not have it :)
And no mention of Dapper on ubuntu.org either.
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 15:49 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> More like 12 months, or I wouldn't have mentioned it.
Ubuntu, the Vista of the Linux word :)
> True, but you have to take into account *what's* different too. Using
> Linux because it doesn't *look* like the competition can't be it, or
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 13:36 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> I had a look at ubuntu, and its featureless non-existant gnome stuff
> drove me bananas in 10 minutes.
I feel the same way when I use the confusing, poorly designed and overly
complicated KDE stuff, Volker :) Each to his own.
> It's al
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 15:44 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> In modern vim:-
> :1,$s/dot/dog/g
Roughly the same command is used in sed, ed, and QED :)
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 16:58 +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> OR maybe in 10 years from now she'll be claiming that MS developed *nix and
> linux is just an off shoot ...
They did develop *nix for years: Xenix :)
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 11:32 +1200, Steve Brorens wrote:
> Well it's a mixture of all things from all over the place (eg Perl and
> SQL) plus the whole .NET thing, but it feels *much* more like an
> extension of bash, awk and friends than it does anything from the
> DOS/Basic/WSH side. Really power
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 11:07 +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> outside that [PostScript is] not really suitable as a general purpose
> language. There are plenty of other good languages to choose from.
Forth? :)
>
On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:05 +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> Is it time to bring out that 1987 quote about re-inventing unix?
>From what I have read about Monad, it is not that Unix like (or
sh-like). Rather, it is more like Python or Ruby.
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 16:47 +1200, yuri wrote:
> if you *really* wanted to be sure ...
>
If you really want to be virus free, I hear thermite is effective ☺
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 14:16 +1200, Steve wrote:
> I've got a bit of a problem with a website and, surprise, surprise, IE.
> I've got a png image that has a transparent background, which doesn't
> display properly in IE, as it doesn't support transparent pngs. When I
> use the gimp to convert it to
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 23:25 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote:
> Hairy, I will admit. Does anyone have any idea/s how to go about fixing
> this?
> Or alternatively, sidestepping it?
echo $CFLAGS
?
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 15:41 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> see u next week then :)
Sounds fun ☺
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 12:20 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> I have looked at reportlab before, but thought that it produced pdf
It does — hence the almost ☺. It produces PDF without the intermediate
TeX step.
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On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 13:45 +1300, Barry wrote:
> Help (yes I'm now screaming...)how do I turn off automatic paragraph
> numbering globally.
Alter the default paragraph style?
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On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 11:19 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> Is there a python package for scripting the making of [La]Tex documents?
Almost
http://www.reportlab.org/
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1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice6.html#fo-section
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On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 11:07 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> As people have mentioned, latex/tetex is available on most distros.
Tetex does not include all the style-files that are on the TeX Live CD.
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ers.
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On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 14:27 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> Please, anywhere but the Caledonian!
Shooters?
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> xhtml, update styles, etc. It's very much a cross between latex and
> xhtml+css. Also uses DC (Dublin Core) for metadata.
The overall feel of OpenDocument is very similar to DocBook, which is
also developed by OASIS.
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On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 15:58 +1300, Rik Tindall wrote:
> What do our experts think?
I think I am IO bound ☺
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For those who don't follow The Register [1], here is a list of infected
CDs from Sony:
http://www.idiotabroad.com/?p=58
I try and tell people that Cline Dion is bad for them, but do they
listen? No…
[1] http://theregister.co.uk/
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another program using the keyboard
(CLIPBOARD).
After a Google, I turned on "mouse-sel-mode", but this does not cure my
problems. Does anyone have a solution to my problem? Suggesting a
different editor — such as vi — is not a solution ☺
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matter. I like the music more so…
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On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 10:06 +1300, Phill Coxon wrote:
> Does anyone on this list have experience with web based calendars or
> groupware that Evolution can publish calendar information to?
By the looks of things, no
http://go-evolution.org/Evo2.6#Web_calendar_support
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lution/mail ☺
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On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 18:52 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
>
> I'm sorry I mentioned PS at all
Don't be: it is a fun discussion ☺
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lly, it was on an
evaluation printer from Xerox that I was looking at recently\ldots
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ptional extra on most Xerox Printers. Trust me, I worked
> for Xerox for 20 years and now do contract work installing their printers
> for them.
Sorry, I was not trying to cast doubt on you skills and knowledge. If
there is no PS Kit, would the printer still work but interpret the
document a
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 15:04 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote:
> Is it a PostScript printer Zane?
It has a PostScript Printer Definition (*ppd) file\ldots
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On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 18:58 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> what is/was kat?
At a guess, kat
http://kat.mandriva.com/
is a desktop search tool ☺
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is a bit
larger
http://europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,1522,,00.html?orig=/770
It still does not have a keyboard standard, but it does support
bluetooth :)
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http://www.multicians.org/fjcc4.html.
2. Deutsch, L. Peter, and Butler W. Lampson. “An Online Editor”
Communications of the ACM, 10: 21, (1967) 793--799, 803
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equally well, or equally poorly ☺
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/status.html
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because some database or other is reindexing? Would moving key data
> directories (/home) to a separate drive away from application binaries
> help?
Change the time that updatedb runs ☺
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X5L) support OGG, including the cheaper
G3 [2].
1. http://makeashorterlink.com/?K29E2151C [dse.co.nz]
2. http://makeashorterlink.com/?B1CE3651C [dse.co.nz]
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On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 12:23 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> Yeah i found that this morning, too heavy, Don't want gnome.
Well, if its light-weight that you want, you could try the GPE-Virtual
Keyboard
http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/GpeVirtualKeyboard
:P
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On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 11:31 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> Does anyone know of an on screen keyboard that works on a text console
> and is controllable simply with a mouse (which is what the touchscreen
> emulates).
The GNOME On-Screen Keyboard ("gok").
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On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 16:07 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Yeugh! Apart from dumping the software as a security risk, then it may
> work if you update /etc/profile?
Apparently that does not work either!
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On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 15:52 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Why not just add them to /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig?
Apparently it works for LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but not for LD_RUN_PATH :(
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)?
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On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 21:05 +1300, Isaac Devine wrote:
> Did you have a look at darcs? (www.darcs.net) It's fanastic!
Heard of it, have not used it ☺
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the file manager; yes the Fonts folder is quite difficult to
find.
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9\textheight]{../swaca_users_guide-p\themanualpage}
\stepcounter{manualpage}}
The diagrams are not centred partly because of ease, and partly because
they look better without the centring :)
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t you are trying to create? I do not mean
“what are the commands that you used”, you helpfully provided those, but
what do the elements on the page *represent*? Are they headers, footers,
diagrams, example code…
Once I have some handle on the structure, I can give better advice :)
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ar students, so the criteria included good documentation,
stability, and the ability to work with firewalls. While Bazaar looks
really nice, it may need to mature a bit :)
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On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 11:32 +1300, Hadley Rich wrote:
> Subversion to rule them all.
I looked at a number of free version-control systems early this year and
came to the conclusion that Subversion was the best of the commonly
available (free) systems.
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ly linked (uses shared libs), stripped
cosc4110:~$ ssh kuku
[snip]
bash-2.05$ file /bin/ls
/bin/ls: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked,
stripped
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o that with OOo.
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ocessor as a typewriter with
> easier white out.
There are two very good (small) books entitled “The Mac is not a
Typewriter” and “The PC is not a Typewriter”, by Robin Williams, which
will clear up that sort of misunderstanding :)
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On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 11:36 +1300, Joshua Collins wrote:
>
>
> On 10/11/05, Michael JasonSmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> OpenOffice.org: press F11 and relax.
>
> For those without OpenOffice.org currently in front of them, what does
> that do?
> it (a little) but man, is it flakey. Mostly I manually edit my style
> > sheets and xhtml directly, and no, a plain text editor may satisfy geeks
> > (I use the centre of evil, after all), but it'll never satisfy a mere
> > mortal.
>
> LaTeX
OpenOffice.or
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 09:52 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> how to convey stuff to newbies.
\begin{troll}
I thought arguing about irrelevant technical details \emph{was} how
we conveyed stuff to newbies\ldots
\end{troll}
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On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:57 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> RedHat, Fedora, Mandriva, SuSE... can anyone think of any other x86
> distros that use them?
http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html
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On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 08:37 +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote:
> On 27/09/05, Michael JasonSmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I was in this very predicament last night. Almost forced to eat my bytes.
See. You were lucky!
> You do realise that vi is the centre of evil, do you not
t
> the rest of you ... ?
I have been forcing myself to learn vi commands, for just this reason.
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On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 15:31 +1200, Ross Drummond wrote:
> # file brxPPDsMFL7X_102.dmg
> brxPPDsMFL7X_102.dmg: VAX COFF executable not stripped - version 376
That looks like lies. Anyway, after a Google:
http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/
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