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Linux-Announce Digest #996, Volume #3 Thu, 19 Jul 01 00:13:02 EDT
Contents:
freescope 0.2.0 released ("Olivier Deme")
Clara OCR 0.9.7 released (Ricardo Ueda Karpischek)
fvwm-ewmh-0.4 - Extended WM Hints for FVWM (Olivier Chapuis)
GNU MDK version 0.3.5 released ("Jose A. Ortega Ruiz")
Guiffy 3.0 compare/merge update ("Bill Ritcher")
VanLUG - OPEN SOURCE AND BIOINFORMATICS - Mon, 23 Jul 2001 (Dave Michelson)
EFEU -- a C++ like UNIX interpreter pre-announce (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Hans=2DJ=FCrgen=20Sch=F6nig?=)
Embedded Linux Evaluation HW ("Vlastimil Pohnetal")
ferm: 1.0pl8 release (sofar)
GNU CLISP 2.27 release [ANSI Common Lisp implementation] (Sam Steingold)
Announcing Joerg's SQL data base (Joerg Schoen)
Zhone Technologies Successfully Implements TridiaVNC eSupport ("Doug Kilarski @ Tridia Corporation")
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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:24:57 CST
From: "Olivier Deme" <olivier.deme@airtel-atn.com>
Subject: freescope 0.2.0 released
freescope v0.2.0 is finally released!
This version of the source code browser application includes major new features such as
new queries and new CLI interface.
The CLI interface permits easy integration with the VIM text editor!
Here is a detailed description of all changes:
CHANGELOG
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- Added CLI similar to cscope: INTEGRATION WITH VIM (EMACS?).
- Added "Functions called by" query.
- Added "Change text" query
- If results found, switch automatically to select mode.
- TAB key for switching back to query mode while in select mode.
- Improved speed for loading of symbol table on startup.
- Fixed crash in screen resize handling.
- Added '-d' CLI option: do not update database at startup.
- Added '-f' CLI option: load given database at startup.
- Removed '-s' and '-t' CLI options.
- Fix problems of database corruption with CTRL-R command.
- Added -Z option for dumping database file (debugging only).
- Database is updated when files are removed or added in freescope.files.
- Fix bug for opening file when EDITOR environment variable is not set.
- Fixed crash with symbol completion.
- Updated help window.
- Updated man page.
- Fix bug about reading past boundary of input file.
- Added 'q' command to exit freescope (navigation mode)
Find out more at:
http://freescope.sourceforge.net
I need your feedback!
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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:25:53 CST
From: Ricardo Ueda Karpischek <ueda@ime.usp.br>
Subject: Clara OCR 0.9.7 released
Clara OCR - powerful free/open-source OCR program
=================================================
The Clara OCR Project is proud to announce the availability of
its new version 0.9.7, associated with a new web site and mailing
lists.
Clara OCR is an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program. It
features both a powerful GUI for the X Window System, and a web
interface. The web interface is able to collect revision efforts
from the Internet, using a simple revision model.
Clara OCR is intended to be used in the cooperative optical
recognition of old books. It tries to facilitate fine-tuning, so
an optical recognition project is enabled to invest resources in
tuning the OCR, in order to achieve better recognition results
for one specific book, and reduce the overall revision cost.
Clara OCR is distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License.
The development started in the second half of 1999. After two
years of intensive work, it is currently close to the 1.0
version. In some cases, the current beta version could actually
be used for production.
The documentation is almost complete. We already have a FAQ, a
Tutorial, and preliminary versions of the Advanced User's Manual
and the Developer's Guide.
The development effort is using Intel 32-bit boxes and various
different distributions of GNU/Linux.
Clara OCR can be found at http://www.claraocr.org.
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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:27:45 CST
From: Olivier Chapuis <olivier.chapuis@free.fr>
Subject: fvwm-ewmh-0.4 - Extended WM Hints for FVWM
I am glad to announce fvwm-ewmh version 0.4
fvwm-ewmh is made up of a module, FvwmNetHints, and a patch against
the last stable FVWM source tree (fvwm-2.4.0). With these, FVWM can
handle Extended Window Manager Hints from the "freedesktop group".
This allows running FVWM with KDE version 2 and get a special
support for applications based on the development version of GTK+
(aka GTK+ version 2).
NEWS for version 0.4:
* FvwmNetHints detects when a window change its net icon hint (as konqueror do)
* Mini Icons management is really faster
* imlib2 can be used in the place of imlib (./configure --help)
* xpm and imlib(2) support can be disabled for FvwmNetHints at configure time
For more details:
Home Page (Download, Installation, Running, FAQ):
http://fvwm-ewmh.sourceforge.net/
ChangeLog:
http://fvwm-ewmh.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog.html
NEWS:
http://fvwm-ewmh.sourceforge.net/NEWS.html
Screen Shots:
http://fvwm-ewmh.sourceforge.net/screenshots/
Regards, Olivier
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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:30:36 CST
Subject: GNU MDK version 0.3.5 released
From: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jaortega@acm.org>
GNU MDK 0.3.5 has been released. It is available from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mdk/ and mirrors of that site (see list of
mirror sites at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html) [0].
GNU MDK provides a simulator of D. Knuth's MIX computer, and a
development environment to write, run and debug MIXAL programs on it.
New in this release:
** In gmixvm, when the mouse pointer is over a MIXAL source line, the
status bar shows the value of the variables appearing in this line.
** The current symbol table can be displayed, in gmixvm, using the menu
command Debug->Symbols...
** Bug fix: the load, compile and run file dialogs now get the correct
filename under linux.
** Bug fix: fonts used by gmixvm are now always correctly saved.
** Bug fix: 'psym' now works correctly in gmixvm.
** Bug fix: the symbol table for a MIX file is now correctly recovered
both in gmixvm and mixvm (negative values where incorrectly
converted to a positive value).
Visit the MDK home page at http://www.gnu.org/software/mdk/mdk.html.
Bug reports should go to bug-gnu-mdk@gnu.org.
Enjoy!
[0] GNU MDK source and binary packages can also be downloaded from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13897&release_id=35894
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Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:31:33 CST
From: "Bill Ritcher" <Bill_Ritcher@Guiffy.com>
Subject: Guiffy 3.0 compare/merge update
Guiffy is a visual source file/folder, compare/merge, utility/component.
Guiffy features 2-way interactive and 3-way smart, "SureMerge", interfaces.
Merge interfaces support Editing during the merge and Undo. Compare/Merge
views can be split vertical or horizontal with synchronized scrolling.
Fonts and colors choices allow each user to create a personal style.
Powerful compare options include: View only the differences, differences
within N lines of context, ignore case, ignore whitespace, and ignore
columns x-y. Comes with builtin UNICODE support plus, a command line
interface for CM/SCM integrations. HTML-based JavaHelp includes Table of
Contents, Index, and Search engine navigation. Compare results can be saved
as text, as an "RCS diff", or stylized HTML. Spanish and German user
interface translations are provided.
Guiffy 3.0 enhancements include:
* New Minimum lines of difference compare algorithm
* New option to "Expand Attention Focus"(conflict) area for 3-way SureMerges
* Folder Compare Refresh
* Options to automatically Save Settings
Guiffy 2.0 enhancements included:
* guffy.inside API package to build compare/merging into your application
* Folder Compare graphical Tree views with clickon file compare
* Folder Compare options to ignore dates and sizes and a quick byte-by-byte
files match verifier
Homepage: http://www.guiffy.com
License: Fully functional 30-day evaluation.
Single User registration is $49.
Thank you for your support,
Bill_Ritcher@Guiffy.com
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From: Dave Michelson <dmichelson@ieee.org>
Subject: VanLUG - OPEN SOURCE AND BIOINFORMATICS - Mon, 23 Jul 2001
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:35:20 CST
Hi, all.
The July meeting of the Vancouver Linux Users Group promises to be very
interesting! Please join us!
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Vancouver Linux Users Group
http://www.linux.bc.ca/
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- OPEN SOURCE AND BIOINFORMATICS -
Dr. Steven Jones and colleagues
BC Genome Sequence Center
http://www.bcgsc.bc.ca
Mon, 23 Jul 2001 7:30 - 9:00 pm
BCIT, Bldg SE6, Telus Theatre
-----------------------------------
Five researchers and IT professionals from the BC Genome Sequence Center
will give us a close look at the role of Open Source technologies in
supporting leading edge genomics research.
Introduction and Overview
Dr. Steven Jones (Head of Bioinformatics)
Gene Expression Visualization and Data Mining with Java/MySQL
Scott Zuyderduyn (Computational Biologist)
Literature Datamining with Postgres/Perl
Pete Lypkie (Programmer/Analyst)
Distributed Computing
Steven Ness (Programmer/Analyst)
Lab Automation with Web/Perl/MySQL
Martin Krzywinski (Bioinformatics Coordinator)
For more information about Bioinformatics, please check out
Computers + Biology = Bioinformatics
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010502/0584.html
Computers + Biology = Bioinformatics
http://www.oreilly.com/news/bioinformatics_0401.html
Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bioskills/
--
Dave Michelson
dmichelson@ieee.org
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hans=2DJ=FCrgen=20Sch=F6nig?= <hs@cybertec.at>
Subject: EFEU -- a C++ like UNIX interpreter pre-announce
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:38:09 CST
In the next few days EFEU (a powerful development environment) will be
officially announced. We are already very close to version 1.0 and need
a few tester that try to install EFEU on their system. We need some
feedback whether the installation process works or not.
Up to now we have tested it on Linux (Intel) and Linux Alpha as well as
on AIX 3.
If anybody has other UNIX system we would be pleased to get some
feedback.
EFEU consists of a C++ like interpreter language and some very powerful
tools for handling multidimensional datastructures.
Please send feedback to hs@cybertec.at
Thx,
Hans
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From: "Vlastimil Pohnetal" <pohnetal@mite.cz>
Subject: Embedded Linux Evaluation HW
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:41:55 CST
--
The new Embedded LINUX Evaluation HW
is available at http://www.mite.cz
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From: sofar <auke@geovusie.nl>
Subject: ferm: 1.0pl8 release
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:42:55 CST
This email is to inform you of release '1.0pl8' of 'ferm'.
FERM is a tool to maintain complex firewalls, without having the
trouble to rewrite the complex rules over and over again. FERM
allows the entire firewall rule set to be stored in a separate file,
and to be loaded with one command. The firewall configuration
resembles structured programming-like language, which can contain
levels and lists.
The changes in this release are as follows:
Variable support, fixing nonexistent parameters for log-[ip|tcp]-,
strict keyword pattern matching, a new NOP action (for
match-counting), a new automodule option for automaticly loading
correct modules, fixing -m for mark in iptables mixo, fixes for
relaxed matching tos values, fixes for mark missing as normal
target, and an updated manual page.
Ferm can be visited at:
http://www.geo.vu.nl/~koka/ferm/
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From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Subject: GNU CLISP 2.27 release [ANSI Common Lisp implementation]
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:43:53 CST
Reply-To: clisp-list@sourceforge.net
GNU CLISP 2.27 is now available at
http://clisp.cons.org
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1355
ftp://clisp.cons.org/pub/lisp/clisp/source/latest/
ftp://clisp.cons.org/pub/lisp/clisp/binaries/latest/
ftp://clisp.sourceforge.net/pub/clisp/latest/
please ask questions about CLISP on clisp-list@sourceforge.net
if you would like to contribute to CLISP development, please subscribe
to clisp-devel@sourceforge.net and send patches there.
CLISP Common Lisp Summary
Common Lisp is a high-level, all-purpose, object-oriented, dynamic,
functional programming language.
CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe
University and Michael Stoll of Munich University, both in Germany.
It mostly supports the Lisp described in the ANSI Common Lisp standard.
CLISP includes an interpreter, a compiler, a large subset of CLOS, a
foreign language interface and a socket interface. An X11 interface is
available through CLX and Garnet. Command line editing is provided by
GNU ReadLine.
CLISP runs on microcomputers (OS/2, Windows 95/98/2000/NT, Amiga
500-4000, Acorn RISC PC) as well as on Unix workstations (GNU/Linux,
BSD, SVR4, Sun4, DEC Alpha OSF, HP-UX, NeXTstep, SGI, AIX, Sun3 and
others) and needs only 2 MB of RAM.
CLISP is Free Software and may be distributed under the terms of GNU
GPL. You may distribute commercial applications compiled with CLISP, see
file COPYRIGHT in the CLISP distribution.
The user interface comes in German, English, French, Spanish and Dutch,
and can be changed at run time.
CHANGES.LOG:
2.27 (2001-07-17)
=================
User visible changes
====================
* EXT:GETENV is now setfable.
* Hostname resolution is now optional in
EXT:SOCKET-STREAM-PEER and EXT:SOCKET-STREAM-LOCAL.
* EXT:SOCKET-STATUS now accepts SOCKET-SERVERs too
and the direction of the checks can be specified.
* Added install.bat for win32 installation.
* ANSI CL compliance: more conformant pathname handling.
* Fixed handling of circular structs and pointers to functions in the FFI.
* Fixed binary I/O for streams with element type longer than one byte,
but not a whole number of bytes.
--
Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds)
Lisp: Serious empowerment.
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From: Joerg Schoen <JoergSilkeSchoen@t-online.de>
Subject: Announcing Joerg's SQL data base
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:46:43 CST
Announcing Joerg's SQL data base
================================
Joerg's multi-user SQL data base with programmable graphical interface (QT).
The database engine allows concurrent access via shared memory and fcntl
style file locks.
The SQL language supports cursors and has a procedural programming language
with variables, loops and conditional statements as well as user procedures
and functions (functions are for usage in expressions).
Two front ends exist. A shell like tool 'jsqlsh' which is a powerful report
generator and a graphical interface 'kjsqlsh'. The graphical front end can
be programmed to create menues, forms and tables. The package is completed
with a table checker and dumper and some other useful tools. A client/server
tool is in preparation.
To demonstrate the usage, an example package 'JES' is supplied.
The tarball and Linux RPM source and binary packages are found at
http://home.t-online.de/home/JoergSilkeSchoen/prg.html
Comments are welcome!
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From: "Doug Kilarski @ Tridia Corporation" <aspen@mindspring.com>
Subject: Zhone Technologies Successfully Implements TridiaVNC eSupport
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:47:43 CST
Instability of Windows NT causes Zhone to find an inexpensive way to remotely reboot more than 200 NT desktops and stabilize its software development.
ATLANTA...JULY 17, 2001...Tridia Corporation (www.tridia.com), a global provider of eSupport tools that empower remote system administration today announced that Zhone Technologies, Inc. (www.zhone.com) has successfully implemented TridiaVNC to remotely access software development files and provide company-wide help desk support. Instability of Windows NT prompted Zhone to find an inexpensive way to remotely reboot more than 200 NT desktops and stabilize its software development. Because of TridiaVNC's low cost versus high value characteristics, TridiaVNC is now included in Zhone's standard package of applications--for all its users.
"Zhone's implementation of TridiaVNC improved our developers' productivity," says Dave Schoeller, senior systems administrator at Zhone Technologies, Inc. "When we standardized on Windows NT our developers found it somewhat unstable. They asked for a reliable and quick means to remotely reboot Windows NT servers from their laptop computers. Now, when they need to remotely access and restart a server, TridiaVNC is there."
"This is a good example of how dynamic TridiaVNC is," says Vince Frese, chief executive officer at Tridia Corporation. "What began as a stopgap measure to overcome the instability of an operating system has lead to a company-wide deployment of TridiaVNC where every desktop is eSupported. Zhone's use of TridiaVNC to reboot servers remotely is a perfect application of our technology. Not only did it provide the necessary connection, but it also improved productivity."
Zhone also uses TridiaVNC for remote collaboration and training. "Engineering IT frequently uses TridiaVNC to train remote users on how to run an application or access a server," says Schoeller. "Its extraordinary adaptability allows us to use TridiaVNC in multiple ways without having to support several additional products. TridiaVNC is a complete solution that we have become fond of."
When his remote connectivity problems began to hurt productivity, Schoeller didn't consider closed source or commercial software solutions. They were immediately ruled out because of high seat costs and support requirements. With TridiaVNC being open source, Schoeller was able to implement a formidable eSupport solution that wouldn't deplete his budget.
Unlike closed source, remote control products, TridiaVNC provides cross-platform support and functionality from a single open source product. This open source model gives users the freedom to customize, integrate and enhance TridiaVNC to meet their specific needs. Its small footprint is another advantage. The Win32 viewer is about 184K in size. In addition, VNC uses minimal resources when not in use. And, since TridiaVNC requires no license fee, it is a cost effective choice for company-wide deployment.
About Tridia Corporation
Tridia Corporation has long been a leading developer of Unix-based eSupport technologies. Tridia brings this experience to the Open Source and Microsoft Windows communities where it provides value priced eSupport solutions that empower remote system administration for live support, collaboration, and training. Founded in 1987, Tridia Corporation is a privately owned, Atlanta-based software development company.
For more information on TridiaVNC telephone Charlotte Canup at (770) 428-5000 ext. 105 or visit the TridiaVNC Web site at http://www.tridiavnc.com. For TridiaVNC developer information please visit http://www.developvnc.org.
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Tridia and TridiaVNC are trademarks of Tridia Corporation
All other referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies
Contact:
Doug Kilarski, ASPEN Business Development, 770-972-4117, doug@ aspen1.com.
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