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Linux-Announce Digest #538
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Wed Jul 7 20:06:43 1999
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 99 19:13:22 EDT
Linux-Announce Digest #538, Volume #3 Wed, 7 Jul 99 19:13:22 EDT
Contents:
LOCAL: WYLUG (UK) meeting Mon July 12th (J Jackson)
Fdutils 5.3 - pack up to 2 MB on a normal high density floppy disk (Alain Knaff)
Zlibc-9.9i - Transparent access to compressed files (Alain Knaff)
Mtools-3.9.6 Released (Alain Knaff)
new version 2.2 of dosfstools (mkdosfs and dosfsck) (Roman Hodek)
Caitoo 0.6.4 - Internet download manager for KDE (Matt Koss)
CONFERENCE: Registration reminder for open source convention (simone@oreilly.com)
COMMERCIAL: Debian Wins Another Hardware Vendor (Nathan Myers)
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From: jj@scs.leeds.ac.uk (J Jackson)
Subject: LOCAL: WYLUG (UK) meeting Mon July 12th
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 20:46:19 GMT
Reply-To: jj@scs.leeds.ac.uk
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West Yorkshire Linux Users Group (WYLUG)
Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend.
7 pm Monday 12th July 1999
(6:30pm for coffee/tea)
Presentations:
A Newbie Encounters Mysql, Perl and CGI
Dave Whiteley
Electronic & Electrical engineering, University of Leeds
Small Linux
Linux on a floppy, in small memory etc
Ben Fowler
WYLUG Venue: Active Learning Lab., (Level 7, near staircase 2)
E.C. Stoner Building (aka Physics/Admin)
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds UK
for location of Leeds University & Campus Map see
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/campus/location-maps.html
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/campus/campusmap.html
General Discussion:
LINUX - User Information, Question and Answers
WYLUG - what, who, when (and why :-)
Especially what happens at future meetings!
July 22nd Thurs - special meeting Philip Hazel,
author of EXIM, on Running a free s/w project
Aug 9th Meeting - No speaker, general chat
Sep 13th Meeting - Dave Fisher on Text Processing
Oct 11th Meeting - some sort of "newbie" topic?
Oct 23rd INSTALL FEST - will it ever happen?
Nov 8th Meeting - ?????????
followed by beer at the Londoner Pub
Further info: jj@scs.leeds.ac.uk
http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/wylug
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WYLUG - West Yorkshire Linux User Group Secretary: jj@scs.leeds.ac.uk
http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/wylug email list: wylug@scs.leeds.ac.uk
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From: Alain Knaff <Alain.Knaff@ltnb.lu>
Subject: Fdutils 5.3 - pack up to 2 MB on a normal high density floppy disk
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 20:50:30 GMT
Reply-To: alain@linux.lu
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I have uploaded fdutils-5.3 to sunsite, fdutils.linux.lu and
www.tux.org. This is mainly a maintainance release, incorporating the
patches that have accumulated over the last year:
1. A few fixes in the Makefiles
2. Automatic install for info files into the info directory
3. Fixes for virtual DMA mode
4. no-mt and fm flags for fdrawcmd
5. RPM file
The fdutils package contains utilities for configuring and debugging
the Linux floppy driver, for formatting extra capacity disks (up to
1992K on a high density disk), and for sending raw commands to the
floppy controller.
Fdutils can be found at the following locations:
http://fdutils.linux.lu/
http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/fdutils
and soon at:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/disk-management
The md5sum are:
0cea751d7895eaa7dbf3dea0528fd979 fdutils-5.3.tar.gz
0291f3c0f5e141215ea1781b24edf62f fdutils-5.3-1.i386.rpm
The package includes the following items:
- superformat: formats high capacity disks of (up to 1992k for high
density disks or up to 3984k for extra density disks)
- fdmount: automatically mounts/unmounts disks when they are
inserted/removed.
- xdfcopy: formats, reads and writes OS/2's XDF disks.
- MAKEFLOPPIES: creates the floppy devices in /dev
- getfdprm: prints the current disk geometry (number of sectors,
track and heads etc)
- setfdprm: sets the current disk geometry
- fdrawcmd: sends raw commands to the floppy driver
- floppycontrol: configure the floppy driver
- general documentation about the floppy driver
I suggest you get mtools-3.9.6 too. Indeed mtools-3.9.5 had a couple
of bugs which made it fail when formatting Mss disks.
There is an fdutils mailing list at fdutils@tux.org. To subscribe to
it, send a message containing 'subscribe fdutils' in its body to
majordomo@tux.org. Mailing list archives are at
http://www.tux.org/hypermail/fdutils
Before submitting a bug report, check whether your problem has not
yet been fixed in one of the Alpha patches at:
http://fdutils.linux.lu/
http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/fdutils
Alain
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From: Alain Knaff <Alain.Knaff@ltnb.lu>
Subject: Zlibc-9.9i - Transparent access to compressed files
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 20:52:03 GMT
Reply-To: alain@linux.lu
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A new zlibc release is available. This is mainly a maintainance
release. It's major benefit is glibc compatible, and ease of
installation (RPM available).
Zlibc allows executables to uncompress their datafiles on the fly. No
kernel patch, no recompilation of the executables and the libraries is
needed. Using gzip -9, a compression ratio of 1:3 can easily be
achieved! (See examples below). This program has (almost) the same
effect as a (read-only) compressed file system.
Zlibc can be found at the following places, once it will have been
moved from the incoming directories to its final location:
Zlibc (sources and RPM) can currently be found at the following
places:
http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/zlibc
http://zlibc.linux.lu/
and soon at (sources only):
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/sources/libs
There is an zlibc mailing list at zlibc@tux.org. To
subscribe to it, send a message containing 'subscribe zlibc' in its
body to majordomo@tux.org
A zlibc page including patches can be found at:
http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/zlibc
http://zlibc.linux.lu/
The md5sums are:
b5d11d605e614ee165d800bc5f605b68 zlibc-0.9i-1.i386.rpm
68b37cf52c1705fc5118c8eff88a2374 zlibc-0.9i.lsm
9f07e966008685028e6c771841dceb3c zlibc-0.9i.tar.gz
How it works:
=============
This package overrides the "open" function (and other similar system
call functions) of the C library. this package uses the LD_PRELOAD
variable to redirect the dynamic linker to use the relevant functions
of uncompress.o instead of the shared library.
Examples: (compressed with gzip -9)
===================================
Before After
/usr/info/ 1568k 521k
/usr/lib/emacs/19.19/ 6750k 2550k
/usr/local/smalltalk/ 326k 126k
/usr/local/lib/lisp 2256k 779k
/usr/lib/*.a 1094k 476k
/usr/X386/lib/*.a 1110k 470k
/usr/include 655k 325k
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ 3158k (1531 compressed) 1095 (gzipped)
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ 530k (479 compressed) 373 (gzipped)
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ 892k (323 compressed) 254 (gzipped)
/usr/TeX/macros/ 1167k 223k (sic!)
/usr/TeX/inputs 242k 74k
/usr/TeX/formats 779k 251k
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From: Alain Knaff <Alain.Knaff@ltnb.lu>
Subject: Mtools-3.9.6 Released
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 20:49:32 GMT
Reply-To: alain@linux.lu
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I would like to announce a new release of mtools, a collection of
utilities to access MS-DOS disks from Unix without mounting them.
Mtools supports Win'95 style long file names, FAT32, OS/2 Xdf disks
and 2m disks (store up to 1992k on a high density 3 1/2 disk). Mtools
also includes mpartition, a simple partitioning programing to setup
Zip and Jaz media on non-PC machines (SunOs, Solaris and HP/UX).
Mtools can currently be found at the following places:
http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools
http://mtools.linux.lu/mtools
and soon at:
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/mtools-3.9.6.tar.gz
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/mtools-3.9.6.tar.gz
(will be moved to ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/mtools-3.9.6.tar.gz)
The md5sums are:
3d642b5fa9f76287512edb8e948fc4d4 mtools-3.9.6.tar.gz
e5d10712c4575519b1378711e30e84fc mtools-3.9.6-1.i386.rpm
Mtools-3.9.6 is mostly a maintainance release, meant to fix a few
minor bugs:
* Mdir -X no longer implies recursive
* Automatic installation of the info files into /usr/info/dir.info
* Various Platform compatibility issues
There is an mtools mailing list at mtools@www.tux.org. To subscribe
to it, send a message containing 'subscribe mtools' in its body to
majordomo@tux.org. Mailing list archives are at
http://www.tux.org/hypermail/mtools
Before submitting a bug report, check whether your problem has not
yet been fixed in one of the Alpha patches at:
http://mtools.linux.lu/
http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/mtools/
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From: Roman Hodek <rnhodek@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Subject: new version 2.2 of dosfstools (mkdosfs and dosfsck)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 20:47:39 GMT
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I've now released version 2.2 of dosfstools (including mkdosfs and
dosfsck). The changelog can be found below. The binaries are available
in
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/LOCAL/dosfstools
and they also have been uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu, where they should
be installed soon in /pub/Linux/system/filesystems/dosfs.
Roman
version 2.2
===========
- Added dosfsck/COPYING, putting dosfsck officially under GPL (Werner
and I agree that it should be GPL).
- mkdosfs: Allow creation of a 16 bit FAT on filesystems that are too
small for it if the user explicitly selected FAT16 (but a warning
is printed). Formerly, you got the misleading error message "make
the fs a bit smaller".
- dosfsck: new option -y as synonym for -y; for compability with
other fs checkers, which also accept this option.
- dosfsck: Now prints messages similar to e2fsck: at start version
and feature list; at end number of files (and directories) and
number of used/total clusters. This makes the printouts of *fsck at
boot time nicer.
- dosfsck: -a (auto repair) now turns on -f (salvage files), too. -a
should act as non-destructive as possible, so lost clusters should
be assigned to files. Otherwise the data in them might be
overwritten later.
- dosfsck: Don't drop a directory with lots of bad entries in
auto-repair mode for the same reason as above.
- dosfsck: avoid deleting the whole FAT32 root dir if something is
wrong with it (bad start cluster or the like).
- general: also create symlinks {mkfs,fsck}.vfat.8 to the respective
real man pages.
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From: Matt Koss <koss@napri.sk>
Subject: Caitoo 0.6.4 - Internet download manager for KDE
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 21:06:02 GMT
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Caitoo 0.6.4
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Caitoo ( formerly known as KGet ) is a download manager similar to
Go!zilla(tm) or GetRight Download(tm).
It keeps all your downloads in one dialog and you can add and remove
transfers. Transfers can be paused, resumed, queued or scheduled.
Dialogs display info about status of transfers - progress, size, speed
and remaining time.
Program supports drag & drop from KDE applications and Netscape.
New in version 0.6.4 :
- ----------------
- -Checking of connection.
- -Offline mode.
- -Drag & drop from Netscape.
- -Drop target ( as in Go!zilla ).
- -Changes in window policy.
- -Restart button.
- -Logging + Log window.
- -Import of simple text files.
- -Auto-disconnect timer.
- -New sounds - Added, Started.
- -Full German and Italian documentation and translation.
- -Some bug fixes.
Features :
- --------
- - ftp and http download
- - ftp and http resuming
- - queueing
- - scheduling
- - info about status of transfer (size, progress, speed, remaining time, count )
- - statusbar shows total count, size, speed and remaining time
- - retrying ( when you can't connect )
- - pasting of URL's
- - auto-disconnect and auto-shutdown mode
- - auto-pasting
- - expert mode
- - get-sizes function
- - export and import of transfer list
- - individual progress dialogs
- - docking into the KDE panel ( dock widget shows progress for three transfers )
- - sound messages
Experimental features :
- -----------------
- - http proxy support
- - recursive download of ftp directories
I have created also source and binary RPM's for RedHat 6.0.
Please let me know if there is any problem with them.
Begin3
Title: Caitoo
Version: 0.6.4
Entered-date: 7 July 1999
Description: Internet download manager
Keywords: KDE, QT, ftp, download, resume, queueing, kget, caitoo
Author: koss@napri.sk (Matt Koss)
Maintained-by: koss@napri.sk (Matt Koss)
Primary-site: http://tux.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de/~caitoo
Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/network
Original-site: http://tux.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de/~caitoo
Platforms: Linux, Qt 1.42, KDE 1.1
Copying-policy: GPL
End
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Matej Koss e-mail: koss@napri.sk
Kosice ICQ# : 19344305
Slovakia
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From: simone@oreilly.com
Subject: CONFERENCE: Registration reminder for open source convention
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 21:08:14 GMT
Reply-To: simone@oreilly.com
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If you're planning to attend this year's O'Reilly Open Source Software
Convention in Monterey, CA, August 21-24 (covering Perl, Apache,
Linux, sendmail, Tcl/Tk, Python, as well as an Open Source business
track) , you'll probably want to register soon -- discounts of up to
$200, as well as an exclusive Open Source Convention T-shirt, apply
ONLY to registrations before July 15th.
Hope to see you there!
For more information, or to register, see:
http://conferences.oreilly.com
Simone Paddock
O'Reilly & Associates
101 Morris Street
Sebastopol, CA 95472
simone@oreilly.com
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From: ncm@best.com (Nathan Myers)
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Debian Wins Another Hardware Vendor
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 20:58:23 GMT
Reply-To: ncm@linuxlaptops.com
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San Jose, CA, June 30, 1999 -- The Debian Project has claimed another
hardware vendor commitment, this time from Linux Laptops Ltd.
Linux Laptops is the only hardware vendor devoted exclusively to
delivering portable computers with Linux software installed and
ready to use.
Linux Laptops Ltd. is the Debian Project's second public "win".
The first was Corel Corporation's choice in April of the Debian
GNU/Linux distribution as the basis of their Corel Linux Desktop.
"We chose the Debian distribution both for its great reliability
and for the huge number of application packages the project
maintains," says Nathan Myers, Linux Laptops Ltd.'s president.
"Our customers leave installing to us, and a graphical installation
tool would just get in our way. The Debian Project has concentrated
its efforts on reliable operation and easy, safe upgrades, because
you only install once, but you live with the software for years after."
Laptops with Debian GNU/Linux pre-installed can be ordered via the
company's web site, http://linuxlaptops.com/.
- ---------------------------------------------
About the Debian Project:
The Debian Project is an all-volunteer organization whose charter
includes the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), the basis for
the Open Source Definition. The project's purpose is to maintain
a complete and 100% Free operating system distribution. Debian is
known among Linux experts for having both the best reliability and
the widest assortment of prepared software packages.
About Linux Laptops Ltd.:
Linux Laptops sells portable computers pre-loaded with the reliable
GNU/Linux operating system. The company aims to relieve customers'
uncertainty about which portable computer models can work well with
Linux, and free them from the substantial chore of getting the
software installed and configured correctly for the hardware they
have.
About Linux:
Linux is the kernel of an operating system, a set of programs that
enables applications to run on a computer. Linux differs from other
PC operating systems such as Microsoft Windows or Apple MacOS in
that, first, it is "Free Software", and second, most of its users
have never seen it crash.
About Free Software:
Free Software, while usually cheaper than proprietary commercial
software, differs mainly in that it is more reliable and more
adaptable to the real needs of its users. The differences are a
direct result of its open development process, which attracts those
people who are both most interested and most competent to improve
the software.
- ---------------------------------------------------------
Contact Information:
Debian Project
Web Site -- http://www.debian.org/
Project Leader -- Wichert Akkerman
Press contact -- press@debian.org
Linux Laptops Ltd.
Press Contact: -- Nathan Myers, President
E-mail -- ncm@linuxlaptops.com
Phone -- (888) 546-8958 (888-LINUX-LT)
Web site -- http://linuxlaptops.com/
Resources:
Linux news -- http://linuxtoday.com/
-- http://lwn.net/
Linux reference -- http://linuxresources.com/
Free Software -- http://freshmeat.net/
http://fsf.org/
"Linux" is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. "Linux Laptops" is a
trademark of Linux Laptops Ltd. Other trademarks used are the property of
their respective owners.
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