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Linux-Announce Digest #667
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Sat Dec 4 12:13:14 1999
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Linux-Announce Digest #667, Volume #3 Sat, 4 Dec 99 12:13:04 EST
Contents:
leafnode-1.9.5 - news server for small sites (Cornelius Krasel)
Vim Editor HOWTO Version 2.0 released (alavoor)
Cyrus SASL authentication library 1.5.13 released (Lawrence Greenfield)
GNOME Napster v0.2 - A Napster (MP3 file sharing protocol) client (Evan Martin)
wavplay-1.4 - wav file player/recorder (includes GUI client) ("Warren W. Gay VE3WWG")
Linux Manual now with ip-masquerading section (Bas van Nunen)
COMMERCIAL: Linux Journal January 2000 (Darcy Whitman)
GPLed Streaming Server for Video On Demand (Michele Iacobellis)
LOCAL: BRLUG meeting December 9th (anonymous@dim.intersurf.net)
zgv 5.0 (svgalib graphics viewer) uploaded (Steven Flintham)
SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 2.5 (SANFACE Software)
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From: Cornelius Krasel <krasel@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Subject: leafnode-1.9.5 - news server for small sites
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:38:50 GMT
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I am happy to announce leafnode-1.9.5 which has been uploaded to
ftp://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/pub/leafnode-1.9.5.tar.gz
and
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/incoming/Linux/leafnode-1.9.5.tar.gz
Leafnode is a news server for small sites which is very easy to install
and maintain.
This release fixes a number of bugs in leafnode-1.9.4. Most notably,
it makes leafnode Y2K-proof: leafnode-1.9.4 would mark all newsgroups
as "new" on 1st January 2000. For details of what has been fixed, see
http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/ln.changes.html
Leafnode has a home page at
http://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/~krasel/leafnode.html
and there is a leafnode mailing list; to subscribe, send mail with
"Subscribe" in the Subject: header to
leafnode-list@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de
I am very thankful for all the people who helped me with coding or tried
beta versions of 1.9.5. Without them, the only system where leafnode runs
without problems would be my own...
Here is the lsm entry:
Begin3
Title: leafnode
Version: 1.9.5
Entered-date: 01DEC99
Description: News server package for small sites.
This version fixes some bugs in leafnode-1.9.4 (amongst
other things, leafnode is now year-2000-proof).
Features include: easy to install and maintain; only read
groups are downloaded; separate download of headers and
bodies possible; filtering of headers for regular expressions
Keywords: newsserver, offline, small sites, netnews
Author: krasel@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de (Cornelius Krasel)
jam@pobox.com (Kazushi Marukawa)
Maintained-by: krasel@wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de (Cornelius Krasel)
Primary-site: ftp://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/pub/
266kB leafnode-1.9.5.tar.gz
Alternate-site: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/news/transport/
266kB leafnode-1.9.5.tar.gz
Platforms: Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, IRIX, possibly other Unixes as well
Copying-policy: MIT
End
- --Cornelius.
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/* Cornelius Krasel, U Wuerzburg, Dept. of Pharmacology, Versbacher Str. 9 */
/* D-97078 Wuerzburg, Germany email: phak004@rzbox.uni-wuerzburg.de SP4 */
/* "Science is the game we play with God to find out what His rules are." */
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From: alavoor <alavoor@yahoo.com>
Subject: Vim Editor HOWTO Version 2.0 released
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:49:44 GMT
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Vim Editor HOWTO Version 2.0 date 29 Nov 99 (Editor
with color syntax highlighting)is released
Vim editor is "vi improved" text editor and has extra
features like color-syntax highlighting and bold fonts
display. It supports color highlighting of more than
120 programming languages like Java, C++, Perl, HTML,
Python, SGML, VHDL, etc..
Color hightlighting greatly improves the productivity
of programmers and improves the readability of
programs.
The Vi tutorial chapter will help those who are new to
vi editor.
Please find the document at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Vim-HOWTO.html
New in Version 2.0
===================
1. Added new chapter "Vi Tutorials", will be useful
for newcomers.
2. Added more useful vi URLs and websites.
3. Some corrections.
LDP project is at - http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO
al dev
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From: Lawrence Greenfield <leg+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Cyrus SASL authentication library 1.5.13 released
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:50:35 GMT
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I'm pleased to announce the release of the Cyrus SASL library, version
1.5.13. This represents primarily a bugfix rtelease with a few new
features, such as support for Berkeley DB.
The Cyrus SASL library is a generic library for SASL authentication,
as used in SMTP and IMAP protocols. It's used for authentication by
the Cyrus IMAP server as well as the Sendmail 8.10 beta release.
Make sure you read the README file, even if you're upgrading from
1.5.12 or any other version of libsasl.
Please report bugs to cyrus-bugs@andrew.cmu.edu.
Join the cyrus-sasl@lists.andrew.cmu.edu mailing list by
cyrus-sasl-request@lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Thanks,
Larry Greenfield
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From: eeyem@u.washington.edu (Evan Martin)
Subject: GNOME Napster v0.2 - A Napster (MP3 file sharing protocol) client
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:53:15 GMT
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Napster is an MP3 file sharing protocol; visit www.napster.com for more
information.
With GNOME Napster, you can download a virtually unlimited amount of mp3s.
Available at http://students.washington.edu/eeyem .
Evan.
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From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com>
Subject: wavplay-1.4 - wav file player/recorder (includes GUI client)
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:57:41 GMT
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Release 1.4 replaces wavplay-1.3, with the following improvements:
- - Jonathan Woithe applied a fix to FilesDlgOKCB() so it ignored empty
XmStrings passed from the file selector dialog when a directory was
selected.
- - Jonathan Woithe: fixed some actions immediately after starting the
program (eg: setting 8/16 bit sample size) would not clear all of the
help strings displayed in the File/type/date/size fields. This has been
fixed.
- - Jonathan Woithe: During record, the size, duration and number of
samples is updated as the recording progresses.
- - Jonathan Woithe: a time display was added. This allows a user to start
playback from any point in the file. While playing, this display also
tracks the current position within the file. The display is calibrated
in 25 fps SMPTE format.
- - Jonathan Woithe (24Feb1999): the block size request to the sound
driver now follows the setting of sampling rate, sample size etc since
doing it before these are set results in undefined behaviour.
- - Myself: Fixed the annoying problem with union semun being
undefined. At one time it was defined by include <sys/sem.h>, but
according to recent semctl(2) man page "according to X/OPEN we have to
define it ourselves". This is now auto-detected at compile time, and so
should still compile on old and new kernels.
- - Myself: A new -d option was added to the wavplay/wavrec command,
to allow the user to override the device pathname on the command line.
This was a suggestion by Jonathan Woithe. Jonathan indicated that
this is useful if you have multiple sound cards installed.
File wavplay-1.4.tar.gz has just been uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu to the
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/incoming/Linux directory. It should appear in the
directory /pub/Linux/apps/sound/players by the time you read this.
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
mailto:ve3wwg@home.com
http://members.home.com/ve3wwg
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From: Bas van Nunen <B.M.J.vanNunen@kub.nl>
Subject: Linux Manual now with ip-masquerading section
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:52:23 GMT
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I've added an new section to my linux manual about sharing an internet
connection over a network (ip-masquerading).
The manual is located at:
http://stuwww.kub.nl/people/b.vannunen/linux-man.php3
Regards,
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Bas
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B.M.J. van Nunen, B.M.J.vanNunen@kub.nl
Student of Information Management and Technology
System Administrator at StuWWW.kub.nl
http://stuwww.kub.nl/people/b.vannunen
"There are no such things as foolish questions, just foolish people"
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From: Darcy Whitman <darcy@ssc.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Linux Journal January 2000
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:47:56 GMT
Reply-To: darcy@ssc.com
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From: Michele Iacobellis <miacob@libero.it>
Subject: GPLed Streaming Server for Video On Demand
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:56:14 GMT
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Announcing MEC4 version 1.4.0 Streaming Server for Video On Demand
applications.
Main features:
- - throughput up to 2 Gb/s per server
- - clustering capabilities
- - user level access to local and shared filesystem
- - advanced file access control
- - completely free
- - extremely tunable
Go to http://members.tripod.it/jaggomiken and feel free to download and
use.
Please, be patient: client protocol layer will be available in few days.
NOTE: Client is not freely downloadable since MTVP engine is not free. A
solution is that you must become a developer of our client getting a
copy of mtvp sdk at their site (http://www.mpegtv.com).
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From: anonymous@dim.intersurf.net
Subject: LOCAL: BRLUG meeting December 9th
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:55:21 GMT
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BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group will be holding a meeting
December 9th at the Bluebonnet Library from 7PM to 9PM. The topic will
be "Networking and Security from the Ground Up - The Basics" by
Benjamin Curtis.
Visit http://www.brlug.net for details.
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Dustin Puryear (dpuryear@usa.net)
Unix and NT Administrator
Baton Rouge Linux User Group - http://www.brlug.net
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From: Steven Flintham <cola@lemma.demon.co.uk>
Subject: zgv 5.0 (svgalib graphics viewer) uploaded
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:57:23 GMT
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[I (Russell Marks) *do* now have net access :-), but it's in rather a
state of flux at the moment so Steven is still dealing with this on my
behalf.]
zgv 5.0's been uploaded to metalab.unc.edu. It's an svgalib picture
viewer with a thumbnail-based file selector. Most file formats are
supported, and the thumbnails used are compatible with xv, xzgv, and
the Gimp. It can also be used with `zgv file(s)', to effectively
bypass the file selector.
This release is intended to be a kind of Grand Unified Zgv :-) - an
`unfork', if you will. It doesn't include every single feature from
Matan Ziv-Av's newzgv 4.2 (which some people have called `zgv 4.2'),
but it's pretty close. With Matan's approval, I've jumped to version
5.0 with this release - as he put it, he thought it "not too
confusing" for newzgv users as there are no longer "(m)any" features
newzgv 4.2 has which zgv 5.0 hasn't.
Here's the changes relative to the previous version (from NEWS):
** New features
Animated GIF support, and optional Photo-CD support. Thanks to Matan
Ziv-Av for these.
Scaling is now supported in 320x400 and 360x480 modes.
** Bugfixes
Finally removed that annoying flashing off and on of most of the
display just to draw a single newly-created/updated thumbnail!
Not doing a VT_WAITACTIVE when switching to a new console seemed to be
breaking things sometimes when switching from a graphics mode
(particularly from X).
Added several changes from Debian as pointed out by Andy Mortimer.
Thanks to Andy and the others responsible for these. Mostly these were
fixes for potential buffer overruns, though there was also a fix for
corrupt GIFs, and the `-a' option was removed for security reasons
(well, personally I removed it for `it was a kludgey old crock'
reasons, but one has to keep up appearances, y'know :-)).
The modes chosen by shift-F1 to shift-F9 were two keys out of sync on
most/all `modern' keymaps (I didn't notice as I don't tend to use
these modes :-)). Fixed now, but I had to move the 1280x1024x24 mode
to another key. (I decided the least nasty thing to do would be to
move it to Tab-F1, and move up all the (1152x864 and 1600x1200) modes
previously on Tab-F1..F8 up a key. Sorry if this annoys anyone.)
The online help and non-thumbnail selector now deal with colours more
like the thumbnail-based selector, saving the screen from suddenly
sprouting a border on svgalib drivers which enable it (e.g. the SiS
5597 driver, at the time of writing).
The mouse pointer is no longer distorted (double-width) in 320x400 and
360x480 modes.
Thumbnails are now generated with width/height info. This isn't yet
used by zgv, but it's used by (e.g.) xzgv's `file details' dialog.
Fixed `nextline' memory leak, which was leaking width*3 bytes on
15/16/24/32-bit displays for every redraw when viewing a scaled
picture.
** Other changes
`:' and `;' now both reset brightness and contrast to normal (`*'
still does this too). These keys make more sense, I think (being next
to the keys used for brightness/contrast). I honestly have no idea why
I picked `*' for this originally...
Uses libraries in a saner way, using `-lfoo' and assuming you've got
them installed.
Here's the LSM entry:
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Title: zgv
Version: 5.0
Entered-date: 22NOV99
Description: zgv is a full-featured picture viewer for VGA/SVGA
displays which supports most popular formats. (It uses
svgalib.) It provides a file selector with thumbnails
to select file(s) to view, and allows panning and
fit-to-screen methods of viewing, slideshows, scaling,
etc.
Keywords: svgalib graphics viewer thumbnails
GIF JPEG PNG PBM PGM PPM BMP TGA PCX mrf XBM XPM TIFF
Author: rus@forfree.at (Russell Marks)
Primary-site: metalab.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/graphics/viewers/svga
296779 zgv-5.0.tar.gz
218479 zgv-5.0-bin.tar.gz
Copying-policy: GPL
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From: SANFACE Software <sanface@sanface.com>
Subject: SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 2.5
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:46:52 GMT
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txt2pdf is a very flexible and powerful PERL5 program
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It's a converter from text files to PDF format files.
Why do you need txt2pdf?
Most of your documents are text files
Usually, your reports from legacy applications, DBs, ERP applications,
datawarehouse are textual
txt2pdf is a PERL5 script, so you can use it in every
operating systems supported by PERL5 (View the list of OS tested)
txt2pdf is a native converter, you don't need to pass through
PostScript format
txt2pdf is specific for text to PDF conversion, so
you can mark yellow, red, green, blue or bold, italic,
bolditalic (with PERL regular expression) words in theproduced PDF files
you can produce a 2-columns PDFyou can add page number in every page
you can add text at the beginning and at the end ofevery file
you can add a border to every page
every word like http://... ftp://... mailto:... https://...
file:... ldap:... news:... will become an URL
you can create a link to a specific page within a PDF document
http://...pdfdocument#pdfmark
every word like mime:... will become a link that
launch the correct application and opens the file
you can use a few parse commands (e.g.[!blue]...[!/blue])
the fee for every licence is only $25
SANFACE Software is going to give you a free licence
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You can test text2pdf and modify it.
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You can't resell txt2pdf or a modify version of it
without SANFACE Software authorization.
You can't copy part of it to include in your source
without SANFACE Software authorization.
What's new in this version
you can create a link to a specific page within a PDF document
http://...pdfdocument#pdfmark
POD documentation [a suggestion of Jerome Lauret]
OpenVMS contributed directory
Amiga and Acorn-risc suggestion [from Joern-Erik LEO Burkert]
!txt2pdf a RiscOS frontend for txt2pdf [from Joern-Erik LEO Burkert]
Requires: JFShared-Library by Justin Fletcher, !Perl for RiscOS and
txt2pdf
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