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Linux-Announce Digest #97
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Mon Mar 18 15:13:11 2002
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Linux-Announce Digest #97, Volume #4 Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:13:03 EST
Contents:
NEW Linux-based Thin Client Development Kit for Embedded Applications (Mario Santos)
kort glue initial release (Antti =?iso-8859-1?q?J=E4rvinen?=)
Ted 2.11, an easy RTF text processor for Linux/Unix/X-Windows released (doofpot@mdedoes.com)
[LOCAL] Long Island Linux Users Group - March Meeting ("Michael J. Roberts")
ANN: BBLimage 0.66 now available (Paul Hughett)
ANNOUNCE: avupdate (Nico Coetzee)
Archmobx 3.0.0: asimple email archiver (Alessandro Dotti Contra)
MultiMail Offline Reader, v0.43 (William McBrine)
gut: convert Project Gutenberg Etexts to HTML (Luis Fernandes)
mp3blaster 3.1 - interactive text-console mp3 player (bram@comp.os.linux.announce.usenet.avontuur.org)
LOCAL: Sharp Zaurus demo at Sacramento LUG (William Kendrick)
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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:40:20 CST
From: Mario Santos <mj_santos@hotmail.com>
Subject: NEW Linux-based Thin Client Development Kit for Embedded Applications
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6348649091.html
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From: costello@iki.fi (Antti =?iso-8859-1?q?J=E4rvinen?=)
Subject: kort glue initial release
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:40:27 CST
Kort is an oversimplified piece of glue that glues together curses, mysql
and tcl with a text file by which user gets to define what to display from
mysql and how to process it by tcl.
The very first version may be downloaded here:
http://muikku.baana.suomi.net/kort/index.html
--
Antti Järvinen, costello@iki.fi
"concerto for two faggots and orchestra"
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From: doofpot@mdedoes.com
Subject: Ted 2.11, an easy RTF text processor for Linux/Unix/X-Windows released
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:40:20 CST
Reply-To: doofpot@mdedoes.com
Ted 2.11, an easy RTF text processor for Linux/Unix/X-Windows released.
Utrecht, March 1, 2002
Available from
==============
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted
http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted
Description of Ted
==================
Ted is a text processor running under X Windows on Unix/Linux systems.
Ted was developed as a standard easy word processor, having the role
of Wordpad on MS-Windows. Since then, Ted has evolved to a real word
processor that still has the same easy appearance as the original. The
possibility to type a letter, a note or a report on a Unix/Linux
machine is clearly missing. Only too often, you have to turn to
MS-Windows machine to write a letter or a document. Ted was made to
make it possible to edit rich text documents on Unix/Linux in a wysiwyg
way. RTF files from Ted are fully compatible with MS-Word.
Additionally, Ted also is an RTF to PostScript and an RTF to Acrobat
PDF converter.
To my own modest opinion, Ted is really easy to use and of good
quality. I hope that you will find Ted useful.
Changes since version 2.10
(Ted 2.11 March 1, 2002)
* Footnotes and endnotes.
* Detailed manipulation of the tabulator settings with a 'Tabs'
tool.
* Bugs and annoyances have been removed. In particular the
crash with printing on lp based systems like RedHat Linux 7.
* Added the posiibility to convert to PostScript without even
touching the X11 environment.
* Windows Metafile picture rendering extended to more types of
metafiles. As most images in rtf files are metafiles this
solves problems with the more complicated ones.
* Better portability to older systems.
* Finally leave /usr/local/info alone: The document and example
files are moved to /usr/local/Ted.
* Jouk Jansen contributed fixes for a port to OpenVMS.
* Preparations for multi column layout.
* Preparations for 'Undo'
Details on Ted
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Ted is a text processor running under X Windows on Unix/Linux systems.
Compatibility with popular MS-Windows applications played an important
role in the design of Ted. Every document produced by Ted should,
without any loss of formatting or information, be accepted as a legal
.rtf file by Word. Compatibility in the other direction is more
difficult to achieve. Ted supports many of the formatting features of
the Microsoft applications. Other formatting instructions and meta
information are ignored.*) By ignoring unsupported formatting Ted
tries to get the complete text of a document on screen or to the
printer. Ted can be used to read formatted e-mail sent from a Windows
machine to Unix, to print an RTF document, or to convert it to Acrobat
PDF format. Below we explain how to configure Ted as an RTF viewer in
Netscape and how to convert an RTF document to PDF with Ted and
GhostScript.
*) Most of the ignored information is not saved either when you
modify and then save an RTF document with Ted.
Features
· Wysiwyg rich text editing. You can use all fonts for which
you have a .afm file and that are available as an X11 font. Ted
is delivered with .afm files for the Adobe fonts that are
available on Motif systems and in all postscript printers:
Times, Helvetica, Courier and Symbol. Other fonts can be added
with the normal X11 procedure. Font properties like bold and
italic are supported; so is underlining and are subscripts and
superscripts.
· Ted uses Microsoft RTF as its native file format. Microsoft
Word and Wordpad can read files produced by Ted. Usually Ted
can read .rtf files from Microsoft Word and Wordpad. As Ted
does not support all features of Word,some formatting
information might be lost.
· In line bitmap and windows metafile pictures.
· PostScript printing of the document and its illustrations.
Saved PostScript files contain pdfmarks that are converted to
hyperlinks when they are converted to Acrobat PDF.
· Spelling checking in twelve Latin languages.
· Directly mailing documents from Ted. Mail in HTML format is a
multipart message that contains all images hyperlinks and
footnotes.
· Cut/Copy/Paste, also with other applications.
· Find/Replace.
· Ruler: Paragraph indentation, Indentation of first line,
Tabs. Copy/Paste Ruler.
· Page breaks.
· Page headers and footers. Page numbers in page headers and
page footers.
· Tables: Insert Table, Row, Column. Changing the column width
of tables with their ruler.
· Symbols and accented characters are fully supported.
· Hyperlinks and bookmarks.
· Footnotes and endnotes.
· Saving a document in HTML format.
· Probably the best illustration of what you can do with Ted is
its documentation that has been made with Ted.
For a detailed description and a manual, refer to the readme.* files
on the web site in plain text, HTML or RTF format.
Changes since version 2.9
(Ted 2.10 April 30, 2001)
* Widow/Orphan control.
* Keep paragraph on one page, Keep paragraph on same page as
next supported.
* Better support for sending MIME mail. The html mail now is a
multipart mail message also containing the images.
* The border width of tables and paragraphs is under control of
the user.
* Manual entry of the font size no longer limits the selectable
font sizes to a limited set.
Changes since version 2.8
=========================
(Ted 2.9 January 31, 2001)
* Full support for page headers and footers including page
numbers.
* Functionality for making a table of contents such as
references and page number references.
* Command line conversion to html or to plain text.
* The improvements in WMF drawing and support for PAGEREF
fields make the pdf files from the printed postscript very
similar to the RTF original.
* Ted can be compiled to use the GTK+ Widget set. The GTK
version is not yet complete.
Changes since version 2.7
=========================
(Ted 2.8: April 15, 2000)
* Editing behavior closer to that of Word. E.G. support for
Control key in navigation and selection has been extended.
* Private compilations and installations have been made easier.
Changes since version 2.6
=========================
(Ted 2.7: December 31, 1999)
* A major step toward wysiwyg vertical layout: Pagination is
visible on screen.
* Preparations for page headers, footers and page numbers.
* Many features added for printing the document. Ted now also
prints on Level 1 PostScript printers.
Changes since version 2.5
=========================
(Ted 2.6: September 30, 1999)
* The HTML produced is now simpler and syntactically correct.
* Better support for character sets different from latin 1. In
particular for Latin2 documents.
* Subsequent steps in moving from the X11 layout on screen to
the exact PostScript layout.
Changes since version 2.4
=========================
(Ted 2.5: July 31, 1999)
* The layout of the text on the screen is no longer independent
of the PostScript layout. Whenever possible, the PostScript
layout is used on screen. Right aligned and centered text are
supported.
* The PostScript Ted saves to file contains so-called pdfmarks
to keep the links and bookmarks when they are converted to the
Acrobat PDF format.
Changes since version 2.3
=========================
(Ted 2.4: May 21, 1999)
* Finding an X11 font with the PostScript font has been revised.
* Little bugs that prevented Ted from working with other than
Latin1 fonts removed.
* The Ted document has been improved. It is added as an online
document.
* Some compilation procedure fixes. Distribution also in RPM
format.
Changes since version 2.2
=========================
Compared to version 2.2, 2.3 is yet another usability update. (Ted
2.3: March 11, 1999)
* Printing of tables.
* Better picture support.
Changes since version 2.0
=========================
Compared to version 2.0, 2.2 does not offer much more functionality.
Many little features have been added, and a myriad of bugs has been
fixed. The user interface has been polished a lot to improve Teds
usability. (Ted 2.2:February 6, 1999)
* The compilation procedure has been improved a lot, and Ted
has been tested with LessTif.
March 1, 2002
Mark de Does.
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From: "Michael J. Roberts" <MRoberts@optonline.net>
Subject: [LOCAL] Long Island Linux Users Group - March Meeting
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:40:19 CST
LILUG, the Long Island Linux Users Group, will hold its regular monthly
meeting on Tuesday, March 12th, 2001, at 8 PM in Roosevelt Hall, room
100, on the campus of SUNY Farmingdale.
We will be discussing kernel creation and installation.
LILUG meetings are free and open to all. We meet on the second Tuesday of
every month on the campus of SUNY Farmingdale. For directions and more
information, please visit us at: http://www.LILUG.org
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From: Paul Hughett <hughett@mercur.uphs.upenn.edu>
Subject: ANN: BBLimage 0.66 now available
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:40:37 CST
The source distribution kit for BBLimage version 0.66 is now available
from
http://www.med.upenn.edu/bbl/bblimage
BBLimage is a collection of tools for processing volume images,
especially medical images; it includes Pyvox, a Python extension
for large multi-dimensional arrays.
Features added in release 0.66 include: The qdv image viewer now
supports 2x zoom, and linking the two displayed images so that image
motion commands apply to both; this facilitates the comparison of
related images using the blink comparator. Computation of the chamfer
distance and various image statistics have been added. Most functions
for array norms, metrics, and histograms now accept an optional weight
argument. The registration classes now support the Pearson product
moment correlation as a similarity metric; they also support an
initial/baseline transform and yield a transform relative to that
baseline.
BBLimage is currently available as an alpha release under an open-
source license and is written in ANSI C and designed to be easily
portable to any Unix or Posix-compatible platform. Some programs also
require the X Window System.
Paul Hughett
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Paul Hughett, Ph.D. Research Associate
Brain Behavior Laboratory
10th floor Gates Building
Hospital of the University (215) 662-6095 (voice)
of Pennsylvania (215) 662-7903 (fax)
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia PA 19104 hughett@bbl.med.upenn.edu
A rose by any other name confuses the issue.
-Patrick E. Raume
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From: Nico Coetzee <nicc@mweb.co.za>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: avupdate
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:40:36 CST
avupdate is a perl script that updates your Linux based McAfee dat files
( virus definitions).
This is the first release, but it is stable, and some have it in
production environments.
Downloads from:
https://www.itfirms.co.za/html/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewsdownload&sid=1
All code is GPL.
Cheers,
Nico Coetzee
https://www.itfirms.co.za/html/index.php
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From: Alessandro Dotti Contra <alessandro.dotti@libero.it>
Subject: Archmobx 3.0.0: asimple email archiver
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:40:59 CST
Hy everybody,
archmbox 3.0.0 has just been uploaded and is available for download.
URL: http://digilander.iol.it/yellowjester/archmbox/archmbox.html
These are the changes in this release:
* support for multiple mailboxes was added
Feel free to contact me for bug reports, suggestions, ideas, improvements...
Thak you.
alex
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Alessandro Dotti Contra
alessandro.dotti@libero.it
http://digilander.iol.it/yellowjester/
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From: William McBrine <wmcbrine@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: MultiMail Offline Reader, v0.43
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:41:12 CST
MultiMail is a free, open source (GPL) offline mail packet reader for
Unix, DOS, OS/2, Win32, BeOS and AtheOS. It currently supports the Blue
Wave, QWK, OMEN and SOUP formats. It uses a simple curses-based interface.
The MultiMail home page is:
http://multimail.sourceforge.net/
Alternately, you can get it via FTP:
ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/multimail/
Binaries for several platforms are available, along with the source code.
What's New in version 0.43?
===========================
* Filter function for all lists
* Clock in letter window
* "AT code" parser in ANSI viewer for PCBoard/Wildcat
* Monochrome option in XT, DOS, Win32 and OS/2
* Better SOUP mail parsing
* Packet name always visible
* Much more
Begin3
Title: MultiMail (source)
Version: 0.43
Entered-date: 09MAR02
Description: MultiMail is a curses-based Blue Wave, QWK, OMEN and SOUP
offline mail reader for Unix and other systems.
Keywords: mail bluewave omen qwk soup bbs fido offline reader
Author: wmcbrine@users.sourceforge.net (William McBrine) et al.
Maintained-by: wmcbrine@users.sourceforge.net (William McBrine)
Primary-site: download.sourceforge.net /pub/sourceforge/multimail
221184 mmail-0.43.tar.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/bbs/mail
Original-site:
Platforms: C++, curses and InfoZip or PKZIP. Tested on Linux, Solaris,
NetBSD, MS-DOS, OS/2, Win32, BeOS, AtheOS, FreeBSD, MacOS X, QNX
Copying-policy: GPL 2.0
End
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William McBrine <wmcbrine@users.sourceforge.net>
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From: Luis Fernandes <elf@ee.ryerson.ca>
Subject: gut: convert Project Gutenberg Etexts to HTML
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:41:14 CST
gut is a program that marks-up Project Gutenberg Etexts to HTML,
suitable for reading in any Ebook reader that supports HTML; e.g.
Plucker (or any web browser).
Actually, gut can be used to mark-up any text document that uses a
blank line between paragraphs into HTML. It understands both MSDOS
and Unix encoding.
gut has been tested on GNU/Linux and SPARC Solaris with perl 5.6.1.
and Windows 98 with ActivePerl 5.6.1.
Two Gutenberg Etexts are provided as examples at the gut project page:
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/gut/
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From: bram@comp.os.linux.announce.usenet.avontuur.org
Subject: mp3blaster 3.1 - interactive text-console mp3 player
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:41:12 CST
Reply-To: bram@comp.os.linux.announce.usenet.avontuur.org
Hello,
I have released a new version of mp3blaster, version 3.1. Mp3blaster
is an interactive text-based program that plays various (mp3,wav,..) audio
files. It is one of the very few mp3 players for the text console that
allows full interactive control during playback. Another important feature
is the ease with which one can create and store playlists grouped by albums.
Important recent changes are:
Bugfixes:
-Added workaround for bug in RH7.2's ncurses version that would crash
mp3blaster.
-Fixed problems with opening/closing sound device on some soundcards
-Playlist doesn't stop on files that can't be opened anymore.
-Fixed bug that left files without id3tags open.
-Fixed a bug that will hopefully eliminate static noise while playing
oggVorbis files (thanks Martijn).
-Fixed 8/16-bit handling, which will fix playing 8-bit .wav files as well.
-more smaller fixes
Feature enhancements:
-Implemented 'next group' feature, similar to changing to the next CD on
a CD changer.
-mixer device can be specified in config file / cmdline
-character set translation for id3-info
-many more smaller enhancements
You can download mp3blaster from these places:
http://www.stack.nl/~brama/mp3blaster.html
ftp://mud.stack.nl/pub/mp3blaster/
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/ (soon after this post)
Bram
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From: bill@newbreedsoftware.com (William Kendrick)
Subject: LOCAL: Sharp Zaurus demo at Sacramento LUG
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:41:13 CST
At this Thursday's (March 14th) Sacramento Linux User Group (SacLUG) meeting,
I'll be demonstrating Sharp Electronics' new "Zaurus SL-5500" handheld
computer (PDA: Personal Digital Assistent), which hits store shelves soon.
What:
Sacramento Linux User Group meeting (SacLUG)
( http://www.saclug.org/ )
When:
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Where:
MIS Training Solutions
4619 Auburn Blvd.
Sacramento
Topic:
The Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Linux- and Java-based PDA
presented by: Bill Kendrick of New Breed Software in Davis, CA
In the coming months, Sharp Electronics will be introducing their
popular "Zaurus" line of handheld computing devices to America and Europe.
A big difference between this new line and the older Japanese series
is the introduction of the open source GNU/Linux operating system
with Trolltech's "Qtopia" environment, as well as Insignia Solution's
"Jeode" Java environment.
The Zaurus SL-5500, due out soon, is similar to the popular Windows-based
line of Compaq iPAQ PDAs. It utilizes a 206MHz Intel StrongARM CPU,
has 64MB of RAM, and sports a full-color, frontlit touchscreen display.
It also has two built-in expansion slots, allowing the addition of
extra memory, micro-harddrives, networking and modem options, and even
GPS and miniature digital cameras!
Along with the touchscreen and traditional collection of buttons to
launch applications and navigate menus, the Zaurus includes a unique
built-in, slide-away QWERTY keyboard for quick and easy input of
addressbook and calendar information, or short e-mails and instant
messages.
Photograph: http://developer.sharpsec.com/images/zarurus1.jpg
More info: http://sharpusa.com/products/ModelLanding/0,1058,698,00.html
The Zaurus comes pre-packaged with a collection of Personal Information
Management applications (PIM software), an e-mail client, games,
network and wireless LAN configuration tools, and the award-winning
Opera web browser, scaled down for PDAs. A growing collection of
3rd-party software (free, shareware, and commercial) is already
available, as well.
About the speaker:
Bill Kendrick, who works for Worldcom in Sacramento, is an avid
Open Source software advocate and developer.
He's created a large collection of free games for Linux, MacOS and Windows,
and has developed games and applications for the Agenda VR3 Linux-based PDA.
For more information:
Contact Brian Lavender of SacLUG: brian@brie.com
or visit SacLUG's website: http://www.saclug.org/
-bill!
bill@newbreedsoftware.com
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