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Linux-Announce Digest #764
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Linux-Announce Digest #764, Volume #3 Sat, 8 Apr 00 09:13:17 EDT
Contents:
lirc-0.6.0 Linux Infrared Remote Control (Christoph Bartelmus)
COMMERCIAL: Win4Lin 1.0 is shipping - run Windows 9x on top of Linux ("J. David Peet")
LOCAL/WANTED: PA-Delaware County LUG ("Mark A. Gilbert")
permafrost-1.0 released, script to manage file permissions (Ian Zimmerman)
COMMERCIAL: Linux Journal's 2000 Buyer's Guide (Rebecca Cassity)
SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 3.3 - text to PDF converter (SANFACE Software)
LOCAL: Linux-Quebec (Montreal) - Rencontre de avril / April meeting (Charles Levert)
WWWOFFLE - Web proxy with features for dial-up users ("Andrew M. Bishop")
Re: tdb: a text database tool - also ANSI to/from K&R C conversion (Jim Crook)
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From: columbus@hit.handshake.de (Christoph Bartelmus)
Subject: lirc-0.6.0 Linux Infrared Remote Control
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:34:05 GMT
Reply-To: lirc@bartelmus.de
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LIRC - Linux Infrared Remote Control, Version: 0.6.0
Copyright (C) 1996 Ralph Metzler <rjkm@thp.uni-koeln.de>
Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Christoph Bartelmus <lirc@bartelmus.de>
(according to GNU General Public Licence 2.0 or later)
LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals
of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls.
Pre-release versions are currently available at the LIRC homepage:
http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~columbus/lirc/
Former versions focussed on home-brew hardware connected to the serial
or parallel port. Descriptions how to build this hardware can be found
on the LIRC homepage. Current versions of LIRC also support a variety
of other hardware. The state of the drivers for this hardware however
differs very much. Support for the following devices is very stable:
Home-brew serial and parallel port hardware, Irman, Anir Multimedia
Magic, Packard Bell receivers, PixelView RemoteMaster. The drivers
for the following TV cards might still have problems and are not
tested very well: many Hauppauge models, Fly Video 98. Experimental
drivers for the Logitech/AST and built-in IrDA ports (SIR mode) is
also included.
The most important part of LIRC is the lircd daemon that will decode
IR signals received by the device drivers and provide the information
on a socket. It will also accept commands for IR signals to be sent if
the hardware supports this. The second daemon program called lircmd
will connect to lircd and translate the decoded IR signals to mouse
movements. You can e.g. configure X to use your remote control as an
input device.
The user space application will allow you to control your computer
with your remote control. You can send X events to applications, start
programs and much more on just one button press. The possible
applications are obvious: Infra-red mouse, remote control for your TV
tuner card or CD-ROM, shutdown by remote, program your VCR and/or
satellite tuner with your computer, etc. I've heard that MP3 players
are also quite popular these days.
Adding new remotes is still problematic but since version 0.5.2 there
comes the first program that will try to add new remote controls
automatically.
Don't expect much documentation. This is only a pre-release version
and there is still much to be done before LIRC becomes easily
configurable and usable.
For people with a little C/C++ knowledge this should already be possible
with this pre-release. Otherwise, wait for version 1.0.
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From: "J. David Peet" <david.peet@trelos.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Win4Lin 1.0 is shipping - run Windows 9x on top of Linux
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:31:10 GMT
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The long awaited Win4Lin is now available.
Check it out at http://www.trelos.com/
This is a product that allows you to run Windows 9x and Windows apps
very efficiently on your Linux 2.2.x system (Pentium class CPU).
Compared to VMWare, it is much more efficient, much more integrated
into the Linux system, and much cheapter too!
The version shipping is "Version 1.0" and is a single user version for
single CPU systems.
- -David
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From: "Mark A. Gilbert" <amerikkan@my-Deja.com>
Subject: LOCAL/WANTED: PA-Delaware County LUG
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:38:08 GMT
Reply-To: amerikkan@my-Deja.com
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New Linux Users Group
I would like to start a Linux Users Group in Delaware County,
Pennsylvania. I have space available at my office and would like to meet
once a week or once every other week. Please respond if you are
interested!
Thanks,
Mark
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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org>
Subject: permafrost-1.0 released, script to manage file permissions
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:40:31 GMT
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Announcing permafrost-1.0, a puny perl hack to maintain file
permissions and ownerships.
permafrost traverses directory trees and compares the permissions
and ownership (both user and group) of files it finds with
specifications from a configuration file. If the actual state doesn't
match the specification, permafrost issues a warning message, and
optionally fixes the actual state so as to match the specification.
permafrost was born when I got sick of the complexity and bugs of
cfengine (this was the only purpose I used it for).
The name has something to do with "freezing permissions". :-)
Get it from
ftp://ftp.prosa.it/people/itz/
(if that doesn't work, contact me by mail and I'll give alternate location).
permafrost is free software, covered by the GPL.
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Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A.
In his own soul a man bears the source
from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys.
Sophocles.
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From: Rebecca Cassity <rebecca@rosemary.ssc.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Linux Journal's 2000 Buyer's Guide
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:49:01 GMT
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Hi -
Here's a little preview of what is in the works here at Linux Journal...
Linux Journal's 2000 Buyer's Guide will be released with the August
issue. This year's copy will include over 2,000 products and services.
For more information on how to get a copy of the 2000 Buyer's Guide
(free to all US subscribers), see http://www.linuxjournal.com/bg.
Vendors: product listings are free and enhanced listings are available
for a small fee. The deadline for all entries is May 12, 2000.
If you have any questions about Linux Journal's 2000 Buyer's Guide
please contact bg@linuxjournal.com.
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Rebecca Cassity rebecca@ssc.com
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From: SANFACE Software <sanface@sanface.com>
Subject: SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 3.3 - text to PDF converter
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:49:40 GMT
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txt2pdf is a very flexible and powerful PERL5 program
(5 penguins at LinuxBerg, 5 cows at TuCows Mac and BeOS, pick at CNET).
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 the produced 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])
you can use background and foreground layers
txt2pdf supports STDIN and STDOUT
the fee for every licence is $55
SANFACE Software is going to give you a free licence for every good idea
or for every good modify
txt2pdf is shareware
The txt2pdf source code is our company core business.
We trust you.
You can test text2pdf and modify it.
You can't use a modify version of txt2pdf for production purpose.
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
Full Screen page mode support
Possibility to select the page layout from Single Page (deafult), One
Column, Two Column Left, Two column Right
Test txt2pdf 3.3!
You can find it in our new site http://www.sanface.com
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SANFACE Software
http://www.sanface.com
mailto:sanface@sanface.com
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>
Subject: LOCAL: Linux-Quebec (Montreal) - Rencontre de avril / April meeting
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:45:34 GMT
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[ A version in English follows the one in French. ]
Linux-Québec
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Rencontre technique mensuelle
=============================
Sujet : L'environnement de développement web Zope
Quand : le mercredi 12 avril 2000 à 19:00 (20000412T1900)
Où : École Polytechnique de Montréal, salle B-316.1
Web : http://www.linux-quebec.org/Rencontres.html
Jean-François Guay (président de Kioza Concept Design) présentera la
création de sites Intranet/Extranet avec l'environnement de
développement Web à code source ouvert Zope, l'étoile montante de la
jungle Internet ! Comment mettre un site dynamique en ligne,
facilement avec Zope ; édition en « sources » avec le navigateur ; les
options pour le contrôle d'accès : Apache, User DB, LDAP ; utilisation
d'un site statique de façon concourante (mod_rewrite) ; JavaScript et
processing-client ; SQL avec MySQL et sauvegarde de session avec
cookies et base de données.
Les rencontres techniques mensuelles sont gratuites et ouvertes à
tous. Elles ont généralement lieu le deuxième mercredi de chaque
mois, avec relâche en juillet et août. C'est l'occasion de discuter
des dernières nouveautés dans le monde Linux, d'établir des contacts
et d'assister à une présentation technique portant sur un sujet relié
à Linux et aux logiciels ouverts. Elles ont souvent lieu à l'École
Polytechnique de Montréal.
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Monthly Technical Meeting
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Subject: Zope: a web development environment
When: Wednesday April 12, 2000 at 19:00 (20000412T1900)
Where: École Polytechnique de Montréal, room B-316.1
Web: http://www.linux-quebec.org/Rencontres.html
Jean-François Guay (president of Kioza Concept Design) will
demonstrate the creation of Intranet and Extranet web sites with Zope,
an open-source web development environment which is rapidly growing in
popularity. How to easily bring a dynamic web site on-line with Zope;
source editing with the browser, access control options: Apache, User
DB, and LDAP; using a static site in a concurent fashion
(mod_rewrite); Javascript and client-side processing; SQL with MySQL
and session management with cookies and databases.
Our monthly technical meetings are free and open to all. They are
generally held on the second Wednesday of each month, except in July
and August. They are an opportunity to discuss the latest news in
the Linux world, establish contacts, and listen to a technical
presentation on a Linux and open software related subject. They are
often held at École Polytechnique de Montréal.
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From: "Andrew M. Bishop" <amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk>
Subject: WWWOFFLE - Web proxy with features for dial-up users
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:42:01 GMT
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WWWOFFLE - World Wide Web Offline Explorer - Version 2.5e
=========================================================
The WWWOFFLE programs simplify World Wide Web browsing from computers that use
intermittent (dial-up) connections to the internet.
Description
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The WWWOFFLE server is a proxy web server with special features for use with
dial-up internet links. This means that it is possible to browse web pages and
read them without having to remain connected.
Basic Features
- Caching of HTTP, FTP and finger protocols.
- Allows the 'GET', 'HEAD', 'POST' and 'PUT' HTTP methods.
- Interactive or command line control of online/offline/autodial status.
- Highly configurable.
- Low maintenance, start/stop and online/offline status can be automated.
While Online
- Caching of pages that are viewed for later review.
- Conditional fetching to only get pages that have changed.
- Based on expiration date, time since last fetched or once per session.
- Non cached support for SSL (Secure Socket Layer e.g. https).
- Can be used with one or more external proxies based on web page.
- Control which pages cannot be accessed.
- Allow replacement of blocked pages.
- Control which pages are not to be stored in the cache.
While Offline
- Can be configured to use dial-on-demand for pages that are not cached.
- Selection of pages to download next time online
- Using normal browser to follow links.
- Command line interface to select pages for downloading.
- Control which pages can be requested when offline.
- Provides non-cached access to intranet servers.
Automated Download
- Downloading of specified pages non-interactively.
- Options to automatically fetch objects in requested pages
- Understands various types of pages
- HTML 4.0, Java classes, VRML (partial), XML (partial).
- Options to fetch different classes of objects
- Images, Stylesheets, Frames, Scripts, Java or other objects.
- Automatically follows links for pages that have been moved.
- Can monitor pages at regular intervals to fetch those that have changed.
- Recursive fetching
- To specified depth.
- On any host or limited to same server or same directory.
- Chosen from command line or from browser.
- Control over which links can be fetched recursively.
Convenience
- Optional information footer on HTML pages showing date cached and options.
- Options to modify HTML pages
- Remove Javascript.
- Stop animated GIFs.
- Indicate cached and uncached links.
- Remove the blink tag.
- Automatic proxy configuration for Netscape.
- Searchable cache with the addition of the ht://Dig program.
- Built in simple web-server for local pages.
- Timeouts for server connection and data transfer to stop server lockups.
- Continue or stop downloads interrupted by client or server.
- Purging of pages from cache
- Based on URL matching.
- To keep the cache size below a specified limit.
- To keep the free disk space above a specified limit.
- Interactive or command line control.
Indexes
- Multiple indexes of pages stored in cache
- Servers for each protocol (http, ftp ...).
- Pages on each server.
- Pages waiting to be fetched.
- Pages fetched last time online.
- Pages monitored on a regular basis.
- Configurable indexes
- Sorted by name, date, server domain name, type of file.
- Options to delete, refresh or monitor pages.
- Selection of complete list of pages or hide un-interesting pages.
Security
- Works with pages that require basic username/password authentication.
- Automates proxy authentication for external proxies that require it.
- Control over access to the proxy
- Defaults to local host access only.
- Host access configured by hostname or IP address.
- Optional proxy authentication for user level access control.
- Optional password control for proxy management functions.
- Can censor incoming and outgoing HTTP headers to maintain user privacy.
Configuration
- All options controlled using a configuration file.
- Interactive web page to allow editing of the configuration file.
- User customisable error and information pages.
Changes
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Since version 2.5d:
Bug Fixes:
Changed the htsearch.conf file. Fixed a bug with ModifyHTML option on large
blocks of text. Improved the lex parsers by using better flex options and
re-coding parts. Alternative fix for the FTP listings with ':' in them.
Change the values of the del-dontget and del-dontcache config file options in
supplied wwwoffle.conf.
Translations:
Added Italian translations of WWWOFFLE messages.
Contrib:
Added some new files.
Availability
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FTP server: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/www/servers/wwwoffle-2.5e.tgz
FTP server: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/httpd/wwwoffle-2.5e.tgz
Web page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/
Author & Copyright
- ------------------
This program is copyright Andrew M. Bishop 1996,97,98,99,2000
(amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk) and distributed under GPL.
email: amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
[Please put wwwoffle in the subject line]
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Andrew.
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From: Jim Crook <crook@ar.com.au>
Subject: Re: tdb: a text database tool - also ANSI to/from K&R C conversion
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:44:44 GMT
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Normally, I would respond to an individual question via e-mail, but it
appears that my original posting was not clear enough about exactly what tdb
is. tdb is my non relational "text database" engine and report writer; it
is not a product that you can buy - it's not even freeware - it's just
free. I posted the newsgroup message to solicit feedback from interested
people - on the data access methodology in particular.
I also wouldn't normally have posted this explanation message to all the
original newsgroups (only to the follow up one). I'm doing so this time
because I've had some feedback that people thought tdb was for sale.
Also, in case anyone has downloaded the C source code and was surprised to
learn that it had been "obfuscated", please visit my "Notes on the C source
code" link. It is explained there that you can have the real code when you
e-mail me your constructive feedback.
tdb is the descendent of the analysis and report program that was used to
analyze manufacturing faults at a small telecommunications company where I
worked several years ago. If you look at the test programs I supply, you
will see some reports on printed circuit board faults. I thought tdb should
be versatile enough to be able to handle most applications, so I also use
tdb to maintain my timesheets where I currently work. When I first did this
because my employer had no system to do this. Now we are using a major ERP
system, but I continue to maintain both, because I use tdb to check the
other system - and it's about 20 times faster and easier to use (as long as
you know how to use a text editor)!
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The following contrived code fragment illustrates the before and after
effect of my code obfuscating program. All but the first comment in the
file is stripped, and all the identifiers that are not keywords, C
functions, etc. have been renamed to Vn, where n is a unique integer. I
think you'll find it nearly impossible to make any sense of the source code
in my download directory.
- ------------ Original code ---------------------------------------------
Obfuscated code ---------------
/* first comment intentionally kept */ | /* first comment
intentionally kept */
|
/* All other comments are stripped */ |
|
typedef struct idnode { |typedef struct V0 {
char *name; /* used for ... */ | char *V1;
int num; | int V2;
struct idnode *left; | struct V0 *V3;
struct idnode *right; | struct V0 *V4;
} Idnode; /* identification node */ |} V5;
|
static int id_count; /* more useful info */ |static int V6;
static Idnode *id_root; /* what this does */ |static V5 *V7;
|
/************************************************ |
If this comment were still present, you might be |
able to tell what this fuction is supposed to do. |
************************************************/ |
int |int
idfunc(name) |V8(V1)
char *name; |char *V1;
{ |{
Idnode *current, *new; /* these are for ... */ | V5 *V9, *V10;
int rc; | int V11;
|
current = id_root; /* initialize */ | V9 = V7;
while (current != NULL) { | while (V9 != NULL)
{
rc = strcmp(name, current->name); | V11 = strcmp(V1,
V9->V1);
if (rc == 0) { /* case A */ | if (V11 == 0) {
return current->num; | return V9->V2;
} else if ((rc < 0) && (current->left != NULL)) { | } else if ((V11 <
0) && (V9->V3 != NULL)) {
current = current->left; | V9 = V9->V3;
} else if ((rc > 0) && (current->right != NULL)) {| } else if ((V11 >
0) && (V9->V4 != NULL)) {
current = current->right; | V9 = V9->V4;
} else { | } else {
break; /* oops! */ | break;
} | }
} |
|
... | ...
} |}
- --------------------------------------
Jim Crook
anti-spam e-mail: crooke@ar.com.au
my real e-mail address has no 'e'
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