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Linux-Announce Digest #53
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Linux-Announce Digest #53, Volume #4 Thu, 13 Dec 2001 08:13:04 EST
Contents:
Mumps interpreter and Compiler (Kevin O'Kane)
SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 5.4 (SANFACE Software)
{ANNOUNCE}LINUXLUANCHPAD.NET (Rob)
LINK: Indian GNU/Linux carves out a niche for itself in cyberspace (Frederick Noronha)
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From: okane@cs.dot.uni.dot.edu (Kevin O'Kane)
Subject: Mumps interpreter and Compiler
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 06:25:32 CST
A compiler and interpreter for the Mumps language
with web enabling extensions is available at:
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane
Also at this site are several programming examples.
Full source code is provided.
Mumps is a string oriented language with a built-in
multi-dimensional data base. It has been mainly used
in medical applications but is well suited for web
server side scripting.
We have added additional functions to access relational
data bases and the site above has an example of use
with PostgreSQL.
All software and documentation is covered by
GNU GPL/LGPL/FDL Licenses.
Work is on-going and subject to change.
Kevin O'Kane
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From: sanface@sanface.com (SANFACE Software)
Subject: SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 5.4
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 06:25:39 CST
Most of your documents are text files. Usually, your reports from
legacy applications, DBs, ERP applications and datawarehouse are
textual. txt2pdf allows you to take those old text files and turn them
into PDF's using only PERL, which means you don't even need to pass
the data through PostScript first.
You can run txt2pdf on any system that runs PERL, but it has been
tested and is verified to work on many operating systems.
etxt2pdf is the executable version of txt2pdf. It's been specially
compiled for those users who simply can't or don't want to run PERL on
their systems. It has all the functionality of the original perl
version, and is merely distributed in binary form for your
convenience.
We currently have 5 executable versions: Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX,
HP-UX
If you're interested in a binary for another operating system, such as
FreeBSD please let us know, and we'll send you one. With enough
requests, we'll also add one here permanently. Please note that the
Windows version comes with an extra tool known as Visual txt2pdf.
Here are some of the things that you can achieve with txt2pdf:
You can mark coloured (using PERL regular expressions) phrases in the
produced PDF files.
You can mark bold, italic and bold italic phrases in the produced
PDFfiles.
You can add page numbers on every page.
You can add text at the beginning and at the end of every file.
You can add a border to every page.
Internet specific phrases such as http://... ftp://...
mailto:...file:... ldap:... news:... will automatically be made into
clickable URL's.
You can create a link to a specific age within a PDF document by
simply adding http://...pdfdocument#pdfmark
Every word like MIME:... will automatically become a link that will
launch the correct application to open that file.
You can use background and foreground layers.
All predefined encodings (WinAnsiEncoding, MacRomanEncoding,
MacExpertEncoding, PDFDocEncoding) supported by the PDF format and the
Unix default are supported by txt2pdf.
It's possible to rerun txt2pdf infinitely (every configured second,
sleep feature) on a specific directory (and also it's recursive
directories) moving the produced PDF to a specific directory, and the
original text to a specific directory.
txt2pdf supports STDIN and STDOUT.
EPD 1.0 support. You can use EPD inside the background layer.
A License is ONLY $99.
SANFACE Software is going to give you a free license for every good
idea or good modify to txt2pdf.
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
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From: Rob <hardcorepush@subdimension.com>
Subject: {ANNOUNCE}LINUXLUANCHPAD.NET
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 06:25:40 CST
LinuxlaunchPad.net is a quick loading start page for linux users, with
direct searches to rpmfind, google, linux doc project, hardware database
and a bunch of other great linux sites
http://linuxlaunchpad.net
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From: Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: LINK: Indian GNU/Linux carves out a niche for itself in cyberspace
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 06:25:39 CST
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INDIAN GNU/LINUX CARVES OUT A NICHE FOR ITSELF IN CYBERSPACE
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There's an interesting amount of activity (or planned activity) going on at
yahoogroups.com when it comes to GNU/Linux and India. You might be surprised
to see how many India-related GNU/Linux groups have been created on just
yahoogroups (one of the major sites allowing you to create free
mailing-lists).
Some of these are very active mailing lists. Others have got only a handful
of members, maybe five or less. But it's interesting to check out all the
options nonetheless. If you'd like to subscribe to any, send a blank email
to: GROUPNAME-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Replace GROUPNAME with the actual group's name.
Here are some of the groups you can find, listed not in any particular order
of merit or importance...
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ILUGs India Linux User Groups (in various cities)
===================================================================
ilug-cbe Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
ilug-kottayam Kottayam, Kerala
ilug-jodhpur Jodhpur, Rajasthan
ilug-indore Indore, MP
ilug-ngp Nagpur, Maharashtra
ilug-tvm Trivandrum, Kerala
ilug-cal Calcutta, West Bengal
ilug-cochin Cochin/Kochi, Kerala
ilug-bbsr Bhubaneswar, Orissa
ilug-mangalore Mangalore, Karnataka
ilug-hyd Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
ilug-bom Bombay/Mumbai, Maharashtra
ilug-goa Goa (covers Panjim, Farmaguddi, Margao groups)
ilughyd Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
ilugcta-technical Chitradurga, Karnataka
ilugcta-general Chitradurga, Karnataka
pda-lug From a college in Gulbarga, Karnataka
lug-northindia North India
Linux_Madurai Madurai, Tamil Nadu
linux-bangalore2001 List to prepare for the Dec 2001 meet there
linux-bangalore-lli Localisation for India
blore-linux Bangalore, Karnataka
nashlug Nashik
jlug Jawaharlal Nehru College, Shimoga
linux-Ahmedabad-users Ahmedabad, Gujarat
vizaglug Vizag, Andhra Pradesh
lugj Jaipur, Rajasthan
linuxatterna Terna Engineering College, Nerul, Navi Mumbai
FLUG Future Linux Users of Punjab
linux-guwahati Guwahati, Assam
mecta2k Delhi Col. of Engg (Master of Engg & Compu Tech)
lug-bhopal Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
alabhya-linux To learn PCQuest version of Linux
redhat-users NIIT students' group
tamillinux Tamil Nadu
erumbugal-linux Linked to Tamil Nadu (?)
lug-cet College of Engineering, Trivandrum
EA19shivalik Shivalik, IIT Delhi hostel
ilinux Project to develop Linux distbn with
support for Indian languages
klint_life Kernal internals group of the
Linux India Foundation for Education
VidyalankarLUG
linux-bangalore-programming
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Linux groups from in South Asia and around (our neighbours):
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pluc Pakistan
bglug Bangladesh
mauritius-linux Mauritius
thai-linux-webmaster Thailand
libux Libya
LinuxInAfrica Africa... as its name suggests
Linux_Egypt Linux in Egypt
TTLUG Trindade & Tobago
linuxiran Iran
indonesia-linux Indonesia
kafelinux Cheap solution for Internet cafes (Malaysia?)
This list of mailing lists related to Linux in India, and its neighbourhood,
is far from complete. Send me more details if available.
Guess what! There's even a muslimlug and an AnandaMargisLug. Again, as
mentioned above, not all are very active.
Parag Mehta <pm@gnuos.org> informs that the ilug-bom mailing list runs at :
http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers and not at
yahoogroups.com. He says the yahoogroups list is "just a backup for web
browsable search archives". To join the actual list, please send a mail to
linuxers-request@mm.ilug-bom.org.in with subject: subscribe.
Indranil <indradg@cal.vsnl.net.in> adds that the ilug-cal list on
yahoogroups is just the archive, and not the actual mailing list.
Can our more active Linux groups in India think of mentoring the smaller
ones so that they can get active? Unless each mailing-list touches critical
mass (of at least a couple of dozen members), it is unlikely to become a
useful tool for sharing Linux-related information. Your suggestions are
welcome. Let's make it happen... FN
THIS IS AN OPEN-CONTENT INITIATIVE / COMPILED AND CIRCULATED BY:
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BYTESFORALL www.bytesforall.org * GOAPIX www.goacom.com/wallpapers/
GOARESEARCH www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1503 * NEWS www.goacom.com/news/
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OpenContent License (OPL) Version 1.0, July 14, 1998 or later.
The original version of this document may be found at
http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml * Information is power, spread it...
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