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Linux-Announce Digest #358
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Linux-Announce Digest #358, Volume #4 Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:13:02 EST
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[LOCAL] Central Ohio Linux User Group March Meeting Announcement ("J. Jacob Hopkins")
gawk 3.1.2 now available (Aharon Robbins)
groovit - making groovy and accurate sound/noise. (Jean-Daniel Pauget)
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From: "J. Jacob Hopkins" <jacob@colug.net>
Subject: [LOCAL] Central Ohio Linux User Group March Meeting Announcement
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 22:27:21 CST
Followup-to: colugx@colug.net
MEETING NOTICE
==============
Central Ohio Linux Users Group
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM local
Meeting Presentation
====================
The March meeting will feature a presentation on "Perl
Debugging Tips and Tools" by Stephen J. Smith.
As usual, problem machines and users may be brought in
for help, support, and last rites. The always popular
"stump the chump" and Q/A session will be welcome as well.
The upcoming meeting is open to the general public, and all
with an interest in Free Software, Open Source, Apache, MySQL,
Perl, PHP, sendmail, Linux, BSD, Unix, Windows, or whatever,
are invited. Well ... maybe not Windows, except those in
recovery ...
MEETING SITE:
=============
The March 2003 meeting will be held at:
Ohio Civil Service Employees Association
390 Worthington Rd
Westerville, OH 43082
Directions can be found to the meeting location at
http://www.colug.net/maps/ocsea.php
...The group has met on the LAST Wednesday or LAST Saturday of a
month, alternating by month to allow more folks to mesh their
schedules with COLUG's. Sites and dates also depend on facility
availabity, with common-sense relocation in the holiday season.
The webpage often has a link to a map to the upcoming meeting
site. See: http://www.colug.net/meetings.php The website is
always authoritative to other discussions, such as might be seen
on the mailing list.
Meeting Schedule
================
The NEXT month's following meeting is scheduled on Saturday,
April 26 2003 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm.
Additional information
======================
Call Phil Hunter (Owl River Company) at 614 - 840 - 0935 .
info@owlriver.com http://www.owlriver.com/
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Check out the web site at: http://www.colug.net/
Send administrative mail to: colugx@colug.net with any questions
There exists a Mailman driven list -- send an email as above, or
see for details at: http://www.colug.net/mailing_list.php
-- Phil Hunter
hunter@owlriver.com
Owl River Company
"The World is Open to Linux (tm)"
... Open Source LINUX solutions ...
~COLUG/meeting/meeting.0303.txt
rev. 030319 JH -- mails to COLA, when possible, on the 18th
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From: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
Subject: gawk 3.1.2 now available
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 02:16:31 CST
Greetings all.
Patch #2 to GNU Awk (gawk) 3.1 is now available. Gawk is the GNU project's
version of the AWK programming language.
The following files may be retrieved from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk:
-rw-r--r-- 1 1239 101 2003860 Mar 21 02:14 gawk-3.1.2.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 1239 101 1581562 Mar 21 02:12 gawk-3.1.2.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 1239 101 985820 Mar 21 02:10 gawk-3.1.2-ps.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 1239 101 618847 Mar 21 02:09 gawk-3.1.2-doc.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 1239 101 613311 Mar 21 02:08 gawk-3.1.1-3.1.2.diff.gz
This is a bug fix release. A minor new feature is the asorti() function,
as well as multidimensional subscripts for match()'s third argument.
The relevant part of the NEWS file is reproduced below.
A .bz2 file is available for the full distribution to save download time.
The -doc.tar.gz file contains the TeX dvi and ``dribble'' files, while
the -doc.ps.tar.gz file contains PostScript versions of the manuals,
the man page, and the reference card.
The .diff file is a SHELL SCRIPT that should be executed with `sh'. It
sets things up correctly both before and after applying the embedded
context diff. Note also that if you use the .diff file to upgrade,
you need to have the version of makeinfo from Texinfo 4.5 in order to
rebuild the *.info files.
Bug reports should be sent to bug-gawk@gnu.org.
Enjoy!
Arnold Robbins
arnold@skeeve.com
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Changes from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2
===========================
1. Loops of the form:
for (iggy in foo)
next
no longer leak memory.
2. gawk -v FIELDWIDTHS="..." now sets PROCINFO["FS"] correctly.
3. All builtin operations and functions should now fully evaluate their
arguments so that side effects take place correctly.
4. Fixed a logic bug in gsub/gensub for matches to null strings that occurred
later in the string after a nonnull match.
5. getgroups code now works on Ultrix again.
6. Completely new version of the full GNU regex engine now in place.
7. Argument parsing and variable assignment has been cleaned up.
8. An I/O bug on HP-UX has been documented and worked around. See
README_d/README.hpux.
9. awklib/grcat should now compile correctly.
10. Updated to automake 1.7.3, autoconf 2.57 and gettext 0.11.5 ; thanks to
Paul Eggert for the initial automake and autoconf work.
11. As a result of #6, removed the use of the dfa code from GNU grep.
12. It is now possible to use ptys for |& two-way pipes instead of
pipes. The basic plumbing for this was provided by Paolo Bonzini.
To make this happen:
command = "unix command etc"
PROCINFO[command, "pty"] = 1
print ... |& command
command |& getline stuff
In other words, set the element in PROCINFO *before* opening the
two-way pipe, and then gawk will use ptys instead of pipes.
On systems without ptys or where all the ptys are in use, gawk
will fall back to using plain pipes.
13. Fixed a regex matching across buffer boundaries bug, with a
heuristic. See io.c:rsre_get_a_record().
14. Profiling no longer dumps core if there are extension functions in place.
15. Grammar and scanner cleaned up, courtesy of Stepen Kasal, to hopefully
once and for all fix the `/=' operator vs. `/=.../' regex ambiguity.
Lots of other grammar simplifications applied, as well.
16. BINMODE should work now on more Windows ports.
17. Updated to bison 1.875. Includes fix to bisonfix.sed script.
18. The NODE structure is now 20% (8 bytes) smaller (on x86, anyway), which
should help conserve memory.
19. Builds not in the source directory should work again.
20. Arrays now use 2 NODE's per element instead of three. Combined with
#18, (on the x86) this reduces the overhead from 120 bytes per element
to just 64 bytes: almost a 50% improvement.
21. Programs that make heavy use of changing IGNORECASE should now be
much faster, particularly if using a regular expression for FS or RS.
IGNORECASE now correctly affects RS regex record splitting, as well.
22. IGNORECASE no longer affects single-character field splitting (FS = "c"),
or single-character record splitting (RS = "c").
This cleans up some weird behavior, and makes gawk better match the
documentation, which says it only affects regex-based field splitting
and record splitting.
The documentation on this was improved, too.
23. The framework in test/ has been simplified, making it much easier to
add new tests while keeping the size of Makefile.am reasonable. Thanks
for this to Stepan Kasal.
24. --lint=invalid causes lint warnings only about stuff that's actually
invalid. This needs additional work.
25. More translations.
26. The get_a_record() routine has been revamped (currently by splitting it
into three variants). This should improve long-term maintainability.
27. match() now adds more entries to 3rd array arg:
match("the big dog", /([a-z]+) ([a-z]+) ([a-z]+)/, data)
fills in variables:
data[1, "start"], data[1, "length"], and so on.
28. New asorti() function with same interface as asort(), but sorts indices
instead of values.
29. Documentation updated to FDL 1.2.
30. New `configure' option --disable-lint at compile time disables lint
checking. With GCC dead-code-elimination, cuts almost 200K off the
executable size on GNU/Linux x86. Presumably speeds up runtime.
Using this will cause some of the tests in the test suite to fail.
This option may be removed at a later date.
31. Various minor cleanups, see the ChangeLog for details.
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From: Jean-Daniel Pauget <jd@disjunkt.com>
Subject: groovit - making groovy and accurate sound/noise.
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 05:09:44 CST
back from the past (1998) a clean-up and site move for groovit :
A linux all-in-a-box drum-machine.
Groovit is essentially a drum matrix which can handle
any samples, combined with, at least and depending on
the CPU strength, two analog synths voices.
Any voice can go through several effects, (for instance
a dynamic filter, and an echo/reverb). It is intended to
be as "real-time" as possible, depending on CPU strength
mostly.
complete info at :
http://groovit.disjunkt.com/
--
Quand les plombs pêtent : « Ðïsjüñ£t.¢¤× »
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