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Linux-Announce Digest #248
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Linux-Announce Digest #248, Volume #4 Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:13:04 EST
Contents:
new gamepad drivers for linux! (Brian)
FX-Repton 0.6 - Portable Repton 3 clone game (Sandro Sigala)
WWWOFFLE - Web proxy with features for dial-up users ("Andrew M. Bishop")
FX-Zacman 0.8 - Portable Zacman game (Sandro Sigala)
ANNOUNC: dbf - dBASE Reader and Converter (Bjoern Berg)
SIMPL project needs help ("R.D.Findlay")
ProjectForum - quick and easy web collaboration (Mark Roseman)
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?1._Linux_User_Treffen_in_Graub=FCnden?= (Benjamin Kohler)
Announce: FlightGear-0.9.0 ("Curtis L. Olson")
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From: bonnlanb@netscape.net (Brian)
Subject: new gamepad drivers for linux!
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:17:13 CST
If you're like me, you don't mind getting hardware for your linux
machine provided it doesn't cost too much.
I'm happy to announce new gamepad drivers for the Gravis Multiport.
They are perfect for people who want to want to play multiplayer games
under linux without spending lots of money on gamepads/joysticks.
The Multiport allows up to four digital gamepads to be plugged in at
once. It is an elegant, rugged device that is especially good for
playing emulated Super Nintendo games, since the gamepads match the
Super Nintendo gamepad configuration. But they work with any
gamepad-supported games under linux, including XMAME, etc.
Best of all, the multiport can be bought cheaply (for around US $10)
because there have been no working drivers since MS-DOS and Windows
95. Originally, it cost in the neighborhood of US $100.
For information on finding Multiports and downloading the GPL drivers,
visit the following website:
http://members.cox.net/bonnlander
Many thanks to Vojtech Pavlik, Bill Soudan, and Chris Gassib for their
help in making these drivers possible.
--Brian
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From: Sandro Sigala <sandro@sigala.it>
Subject: FX-Repton 0.6 - Portable Repton 3 clone game
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:17:14 CST
FX-Repton is a clone of the old BBC Micro Repton 3 game.
It uses the portable FOX Toolkit library.
The original Repton 3 game was produced on the BBC Micro and was the third
hit Repton game for Superior Software.
A level editor is also included.
A screenshot is available at
http://www.sigala.it/sandro/screenshots/fxrepton.gif
More information ca be found at:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/fxrepton
A precompiled Windows version is also available.
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==== Changes from version 0.5 to version 0.6 ====
* Added not-yet-finished level editor.
* Added feature to load the graphics from another episode.
* Changed sound and animation when Repton dies.
* Now the bitmaps are in compressed RLE format (requires FOX 1.0.28).
* Updated the documentation.
* Minor fixes to user interface.
* User-invisible clean-ups.
* Bug fixes.
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From: "Andrew M. Bishop" <amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk>
Subject: WWWOFFLE - Web proxy with features for dial-up users
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:17:22 CST
WWWOFFLE - World Wide Web Offline Explorer - Version 2.7g
=========================================================
The WWWOFFLE programs simplify World Wide Web browsing from computers that use
intermittent (dial-up) connections to the internet.
Description
===========
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.
- Requests compressed pages from web servers (compile time option).
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.
- Option to not fetch webbug images (images of 1 pixel square).
- 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 scripts.
- Remove Java applets.
- Remove stylesheets.
- Remove shockwave flash animations.
- Indicate cached and uncached links.
- Remove the blink tag.
- Remove refresh tags.
- Remove links to pages that are in the DontGet list.
- Remove inline frames (iframes) that are in the DontGet list.
- Replace images that are in the DontGet list.
- Replace webbug images (images of 1 pixel square).
- Demoronise HTML character sets.
- Stop animated GIFs.
- Provides information about cached pages
- Headers, raw and modified.
- Contents, images, links etc.
- Source code unmodified by WWWOFFLE.
- Automatic proxy configuration for Netscape.
- Searchable cache with the addition of the ht://Dig, mnoGoSearch
(UdmSearch) or Namazu programs.
- Built in simple web-server for local pages.
- Allows CGI scripts
- Timeouts to stop proxy lockups
- DNS name lookups.
- Remote server connection.
- Data transfer.
- Continue or stop downloads interrupted by client.
- Based on file size of fraction downloaded.
- 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.
- Compression of cached pages based on age.
- Provides compressed pages to web browser (compile time option).
Indexes
- Multiple indexes of pages stored in cache
- Servers for each protocol (http, ftp ...).
- Pages on each server.
- Pages waiting to be fetched.
- Pages requested last time offline.
- 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
=======
Since version 2.7f:
Bug Fixes:
When modifying HTML links to same page are displayed as cached. Only censor
headers for SSL if using another proxy. Don't refetch FTP files of the same
date as cached one. Change some HTTP error codes to 500 instead of 200.
Insert empty ALT tags when removing images. Delete zero length cached files
when requested offline. Fix parsing of '-c' option in wwwoffle-tools.
New Features:
Added a cache-control-no-cache option which works like pragma-no-cache.
Renamed no-lasttime-index to create-history-indexes and reversed its meaning.
If a CGI returns a HTTP status line at the top then keep it.
Added some web pages that will show the headers and content of cached pages.
Allow -1 to be used for max-size and min-free to ignore the options.
Write the unmodified header from the server to the cache when online.
*NOTE* The URL for the URL specific index has changed.
Instead of '/index/url/?xxx' it is '/index/url?xxx'.
*NOTE* The URL for configuration page editing a specific URL has changed.
Instead of '/configuration/xxx?url=yyy' it is '/configuration/xxx?yyy'.
*NOTE* A lot of the message pages have been modified, if any of the WWWOFFLE
generated HTML pages look different it may be a bug has been introduced.
Availability
============
Version 2.7g uploaded, but may not be available yet
FTP server: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/www/servers/wwwoffle-2.7g.tgz
FTP server: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/httpd/wwwoffle-2.7g.tgz
Web page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/
Author & Copyright
==================
This program is copyright Andrew M. Bishop 1996,97,98,99,2000,01,02
(amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk) and distributed under GPL.
email: amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
[Please put wwwoffle in the subject line]
--
Andrew.
======================================================================
Andrew M. Bishop amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
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From: Sandro Sigala <sandro@sigala.it>
Subject: FX-Zacman 0.8 - Portable Zacman game
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:17:14 CST
FX-Zacman is a maze game similar to Pacman.
It uses the portable FOX Toolkit library.
A screenshot is available at
http://www.sigala.it/sandro/screenshots/fxzacman.gif
More information can be found at:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/fxzacman
A precompiled Windows version is also available.
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==== Changes from version 0.7 to version 0.8 ====
* Minor fixes to user interface.
* User-invisible clean-ups.
* Bug fixes.
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From: Bjoern Berg <clergyman@gmx.de>
Subject: ANNOUNC: dbf - dBASE Reader and Converter
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:17:23 CST
ANNOUNCEMENT: dbf - dBASE Reader and Converter
dbf is an easy-to-use command line tool to show and convert the content
of dBASE III, IV, and 5.0 files. It reads dBASE databases and prints the
content to the screen or converts it to comma-separated (*.csv) files
which can be opened in Excel, StarOffice, and most other spread sheets.
It can also be used to show some statistics about the content.
dbf version 0.3.1
dBase reader and converter for dBase 3 and higher databases
Author: Bjoern Berg
Email: clergyman@gmx.de
Available for:
- Windows
- Linux
- MacOS (no pre-compiled binaries)
More information on: http://www.anubisnet.de
Download binaries: http://www.anubisnet.de/download.php
Download source: http://anubisnet.sf.net
Please note that I do not want to spam the group with such information. My
intention was to let you know that there exists a small tool which can help you
with your daily work with dBASE, especially on Linux.
Maybe some of you want to test it and tell me if dbf does its work properly.
If you want to comment this posting, please send an email to clergyman@gmx.de
Thank you for your attention.
Best regards,
Björn
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From: "R.D.Findlay" <fcsoft@netcom.ca>
Subject: SIMPL project needs help
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:17:51 CST
The SIMPL open source project (https://sourceforge.net/projects/simpl/)
aims to bring Send/Receive/Reply message passing first pioneered by
RTOS's such as QNX to Linux.
A subproject has just been created to produce a "SIMPL on a floppy"
single floppy distribution for SIMPL. If you have experience with such
mini Linux distributions and would like to help the SIMPL project can
use you.
You can contact me directly at fcsoft@attcanada.ca or the SIMPL project
mailing list to offer your services.
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From: Mark Roseman <roseman@courseforum.com>
Subject: ProjectForum - quick and easy web collaboration
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:18:01 CST
ProjectForum provides a powerful but easy-to-use solution for
flexible workgroup collaboration and coordination of projects
over the web. Use it for project planning, todo lists, design
notes, task assignments, meeting notes, problem reports, team
discussions, collecting feedback, research, brainstorming and more.
Version 1.1 (the first public release) is now available, with versions
for Linux, as well as Windows, MacOS X, and FreeBSD.
More info at
http://www.courseforum.com/projectforum/
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From: kob@trash.net (Benjamin Kohler)
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?1._Linux_User_Treffen_in_Graub=FCnden?=
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 08:17:49 CST
1. Linux User Treffen in Graubünden
Wo: Restaurant Rebleuten, Chur
Wann: Samstag, 7.12.2, ab 18h
Vorhanden: Linux, *BSD, Netz, WLAN, Bier & Essen
Mitnehmen
fakultativ: eigenen Laptop oder Compi, eigene Distributionen,
Netzwerkkabel
Kontakt: lugr @ sourcepole.ch
URL: http://lugr.sourcepole.ch
Die Linux User Group Graubünden ist am entstehen. Ziel soll es sein
Linux Benützer aus dem Raum Graubünden und Umgebung zusammen zu
bringen. Wir treffen uns am Samstag, dem 7.12.2, ab 18h im Rebleuten
in Chur. Es sind alle Linux User und solche die es werden wollen
herzlich eingeladen. Alle BSD'ler und Benützer von anderen freien
Unixen sind auch herzlich willkommen.
Im Rebleuten wird es möglich sein Linux zu installieren. Linux, *BSD,
Netz, WLAN, Bier, Kaffee, Mineral, Essen, Leute die einem helfen usw.
sind vorhanden.
Also bis dann,
Adrian Gauch, Benjamin Kohler, Tomas Pospisek
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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:27:31 CST
Subject: Announce: FlightGear-0.9.0
From: "Curtis L. Olson" <curt@me.umn.edu>
FlightGear version 0.9.0 is now available for download from:
http://www.flightgear.org
FlightGear is a free, open-source flight simulator. The source code
is licensed under the GPL.
Note that there is a new 0.9.0 version of the base package that
corresponds with this new release. You must download this new base
package along with the 0.9.0 binaries/source code.
Prerequisites if building from source:
- You must have plib version 1.6.0 or newer (http://plib.sf.net)
installed before building both SimGear and FlightGear.
- You must have SimGear-0.3.0 (www.simgear.org) installed before
building FlightGear-0.9.0
A few of the highlights of this release are:
- Support for fully animated, clickable 3d cockpits
- Runway, approach, and taxiway lighting.
- Many improved runway and terrain textures.
- New and updated aircraft.
- Vacuum, pitot, and electical systems are now modeled.
- Localization support for menus and command line option help.
- Support for additional joysticks "out of the box".
For more information on the FlightGear project, please visit our web
page at:
http://www.flightgear.org
You can view a summary of the new features, changes, and bug fixes for
this release here:
http://www.flightgear.org/news.html
Best regards,
Curt.
--
Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project
Twin Cities curt@me.umn.edu curt@flightgear.org
Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org
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