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Linux-Announce Digest #328
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Linux-Announce Digest #328, Volume #4 Sat, 22 Feb 2003 21:13:02 EST
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Vstr 1.0.2 (string library in C) (James Antill)
MobiliX.org is now TuxMobil.org (Werner Heuser)
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From: James Antill <james@and.org>
Subject: Vstr 1.0.2 (string library in C)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:32:06 CST
About
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Vstr is a string library designed for network communication, but
applicable in a number of other areas. It works on the idea of
separate nodes of information, and the length/ptr model and not the
termination model of "C strings". It does dynamic resizing of strings
as you add/delete data.
It can also do automatic referencing for mmap() areas of memory, and
includes a portable version of a printf-like function (which is ISO
9899:1999 compliant, and includes support for i18n parameter position
modifiers).
Other convenience functions are also included, so you can: easily
split data from a string into sections (similar to perl's split
function); and get string data from a socket or put data to a
socket.
Main Changes
------------
. a couple more functions added to make life easier for calculating
lengths given positions.
. build fixes for FreeBSD
. runtime fixes for using code from C++
Download URLs
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Overview: http://www.and.org/vstr/
Comparison: http://www.and.org/vstr/comparison.html
ChangeLog: http://www.and.org/vstr/ChangeLog
Tar balls
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http://www.and.org/vstr/1.0.2/vstr-1.0.2.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.and.org/pub/james/vstr/1.0.2/vstr-1.0.2.tar.gz
http://www.and.org/vstr/1.0.2/vstr-1.0.2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.and.org/pub/james/vstr/1.0.2/vstr-1.0.2.tar.bz2
apt-rpm repository
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rpm ftp://ftp.and.org/apt redhat/8.0/en/i386 extras
rpm-src ftp://ftp.and.org/apt redhat/8.0/en/i386 extras
RPMs
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http://www.and.org/vstr/rpms/
ftp://ftp.and.org/pub/james/vstr/rpms/
PAD description
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http://www.and.org/vstr/vstr_pad.xml
--
James Antill -- james@and.org
Tip #1 for finding bugs in your C source code...
egrep "strncpy|char[\t ]+.+\[[0-9]+\]" *.[ch]
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From: Werner Heuser <Werner.Heuser@web.de>
Subject: MobiliX.org is now TuxMobil.org
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 06:49:18 CST
MobiliX with new name TuxMobil.org
*- Please update your bookmarks and help by changing all -*
*- the links from mobilix.org to tuxmobil.org -*
In the trademark case between the owners of the trademark Obelix and
Werner Heuser owner of the project "MobiliX - UniX on Mobile Devices" the
last verdict says that Werner Heuser has to withdraw his trademark
MobiliX. Therefore he has decided to rename his Open Source project to
"TuxMobil" (http://tuxmobil.org).
Nevertheless he is already asking the highest German court to permit
an appelation against the decision of the latest instance in court. The
appelation will take approximately four years. In the meantime the
trademark MobiliX can't be used, except he would be able to give
a pawn of 200.000 EURO for this time. The lawyers of Werner Heuser
Jaschinski, Biere und Brexl - JBB (http://www.jbb.de) are confident
to win the last instance. This would also help many other projects. The
number of trademarks ending on "ix", which have trouble with
Les Edition Albert René is increasing. Many projects can't effort
the high financial risk to fight back.
In autumn 2001 Les Edition Albert René, the owner of the trademark Obelix
has charged Werner Heuser. He is the owner of the wellknown open source
project MobiliX (now TuxMobil http://tuxmobil.org) . This project provides a
plenty of information about UniX operating systems like Linux, BSD and
Solaris on mobile computers. Therefore he has choosen a name, which
expresses this by a combination of the words "Mobile" and "iX". According
to the plaintiff he has choosen a word very similar to their trademark
Obelix, because he wants to take advantage of their famous name.
A detailed documentation of the case, containing information
about other projects under siege and the written statements of the
lawyers JBB, is available online
(http://tuxmobil.org/mobilix_asterix.html).
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