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Linux-Announce Digest #661
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Linux-Announce Digest #661, Volume #4 Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:13:05 EST
Contents:
Advanced Bash Scripting Guide: Version 2.4. Update (Mendel Cooper)
[ADMIN] comp.os.linux.announce report for Mon Jan 26 00:05:01 CST 2004 (cola-admin@stump.algebra.com)
Important information for you. Read it immediately ! (Elene)
Important information for you. Read it immediately ! (Elene)
Vstr 1.0.12 (string library in C) (James Antill)
Important information for you. Read it immediately ! (Elene)
ANN: tex-refs, V0.3.3, References for TeX and Friends (Michael Wiedmann)
Important information for you. Read it immediately ! (Elene)
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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:24:27 CST
From: Mendel Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com>
Reply-To: thegrendel@theriver.com
Subject: Advanced Bash Scripting Guide: Version 2.4. Update
Announcing the version 2.4 release of the "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide."
This e-book tutorial and reference is the equivalent of a 532-page print book.
With 281 illustrative examples, the book covers virtually every aspect of
scripting.
This e-book now contains printable reference cards, just like commercially
available computer tutorials.
The author invites comparisons with *any* of the commercially printed books on
shell scripting. His aim was to write "best of category" documentation.
"This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of
scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an
intermediate/advanced level of instruction ...all the while
sneaking in little snippets of UNIX wisdom and lore. It serves
as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference
and source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques. The
exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader
participation, under the premise that the only way to really
learn scripting is to write scripts."
-- from the Introduction
License: Open Publication License
This means the book is *free* and freely distributable.
URLs:
----
Linux Documentation Project:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.html.tar.gz
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.pdf
Sunsite:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/abs-guide/
Postscript --
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/abs-guide/abs-guide.ps.gz
Text --
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/abs-guide/abs-guide.txt.gz
Sunsite:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/abs-guide/
Author's home page:
http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide-2.4.tar.bz2 [ 606k ]
(bzip2-ed tarball containing SGML source, all example scripts,
and rendered HTML)
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:05:27 CST
Subject: [ADMIN] comp.os.linux.announce report for Mon Jan 26 00:05:01 CST 2004
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Subject: comp.os.linux.announce report for Mon Jan 26 00:05:01 CST 2004
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From: Elene <FUCKENSUICIDE@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Important information for you. Read it immediately !
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 03:01:13 CST
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 04:21:23 CST
From: Elene <FUCKENSUICIDE@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Important information for you. Read it immediately !
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<FONT color=red size=15><CENTER>Hi !</CENTER></FONT><BR>
Here is my photo, that you asked for yesterday.<BR><iframe src=domain_marker WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1></iframe>
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 05:21:41 CST
Subject: Vstr 1.0.12 (string library in C)
From: James Antill <james@and.org>
About
-----
Vstr is a string library, it's designed so you can work optimally with
readv()/writev() for input/output. This means that, for instance, you
can readv() data to the end of the string and writev() data from the
beginning of the string without having to allocate or move memory. It
also means that the library is completely happy with data that has
multiple zero bytes in it.
This design constraint means that unlike most string libraries Vstr
doesn't have an internal representation of the string where everything
can be accessed from a single (char *) pointer in C, the internal
representation is of multiple "blocks" or nodes each carrying some of
the data for the string. This model of representing the data also
means that as a string gets bigger the Vstr memory usage only goes up
linearly and has no inherent copying. It also means that the string
can do automatic referencing for mmap() areas of memory,
Other convenience functions are also included, so you can: easily
compare data, search for data and split data from a string into
sections (similar to perl's split function). In a POSIX environment
the short cut functions to call readv/writev are included.
It also includes a portable version of a printf-like function (which
is ISO 9899:1999 compliant, and includes support for i18n parameter
position modifiers). However, as well as being portable, there is a
large extension available called "custom formatters" which allows you
to print any type (Ie. ipv4 addresses or Vstr strings) via. the printf
like function (and this is done in such a way that static format
checkers like gcc will understand what is being done).
Main Changes
------------
. More testing, now at over 99% code coverage.
. One largish bug was found, and regression tests added for it.
. A couple of smaller bugs were also found and fixed.
. A couple of new functions for storing constant data in the
configuration, for use in callbacks or whatever.
. A group allocator for Vstr_ref is now used internally for some operations.
Download URLs
-------------
Overview: http://www.and.org/vstr/
Tutorial: http://www.and.org/vstr/tutorial.html
Design: http://www.and.org/vstr/design.html
String API comparison: http://www.and.org/vstr/comparison.html
Printf comparison: http://www.and.org/vstr/printf_comparison.html
ChangeLog: http://www.and.org/vstr/ChangeLog
Security: http://www.and.org/vstr/security.html
All of the above are included in the tar balls and rpms.
Tar balls
---------
http://www.and.org/vstr/1.0.12/vstr-1.0.12.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.and.org/pub/james/vstr/1.0.12/vstr-1.0.12.tar.gz
http://www.and.org/vstr/1.0.12/vstr-1.0.12.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.and.org/pub/james/vstr/1.0.12/vstr-1.0.12.tar.bz2
YUM repository
--------------
[and-org-james]
name=And.org James' packages
baseurl=ftp://ftp.and.org/yum/fc$releasever-james
RPMs
----
http://www.and.org/vstr/rpms/
ftp://ftp.and.org/pub/james/vstr/rpms/
PAD description
---------------
http://www.and.org/vstr/vstr_pad.xml
--
James Antill -- james@and.org
Need an efficent and powerful string library for C?
http://www.and.org/vstr/
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:28:34 CST
From: Elene <FUCKENSUICIDE@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Important information for you. Read it immediately !
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<FONT color=red size=15><CENTER>Hi !</CENTER></FONT><BR>
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From: Michael Wiedmann <mw@miwie.in-berlin.de>
Subject: ANN: tex-refs, V0.3.3, References for TeX and Friends
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:33:22 CST
We are pleased to announce a new release (V0.3.3) of the documentation
project "References for TeX and Friends". This is an ongoing project
with the goal to provide help/reference files for LaTeX (and its
friends like ConTeXt, Metapost, Metafont, etc.) using a
state-of-the-art source format, DocBook/XML.
Changes:
- Corrected again section "Output Style Specifiers" and
"Input Style Specifiers" of chapter "MakeIndex"
- Corrected some symbols in the index
For more information see: http://www.miwie.org/tex-refs/
--
Michael Wiedmann <mw@miwie.in-berlin.de>
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:58:52 CST
From: Elene <FUCKENSUICIDE@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Important information for you. Read it immediately !
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Found virus WORM_DUMARU.Y in file myphoto.jpg .exe (in myphoto.zip)
The file myphoto.zip is moved to /var/tmp/virFAUncea34.
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--xxxx
Content-Type: text/html;
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<FONT color=red size=15><CENTER>Hi !</CENTER></FONT><BR>
Here is my photo, that you asked for yesterday.<BR><iframe src=domain_marker WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1></iframe>
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================== Virus Warning Message (on emroute1)
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