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Linux-Announce Digest #739
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Linux-Announce Digest #739, Volume #4 Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:13:02 EDT
Contents:
ANN: dbf 0.8.2 - dBASE Reader and Converter (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Berg?=)
Article on free software... reporting from India ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
zgv 5.8 - svgalib picture viewer with thumbnail-based file selector (Russell Marks)
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 01:47:57 CST
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Berg?= <clergyman@gmx.de>
Subject: ANN: dbf 0.8.2 - dBASE Reader and Converter
ANNOUNCEMENT: dbf - dBASE Reader and Converter
dBase reader and converter for dBase 3 and higher databases
Current Release: 0.8.2
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.
What it does:
* Show the structure of a dBASE file
* Display amount of data sets, time of last update, additional
information stored in the file header
* Convert the whole content of a dBASE file to CSV or SQL
* Open and read your dBASE file on nearly every platform: x86,
Alpha/RISC, PowerPC
* use your dBASE files on every operating system: MS Windows, Linux,
MacOS X, *BSD, and many more
Pre-compiled binaries available for:
- Windows
- Linux (x86)
Changes since 0.8:
- This release fixes the handling of deleted record sets in dBASE files.
More information on: http://www.anubisnet.de
Download binaries:
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1219
Download source:
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1219
If you want to comment this posting, please send an email to
info@anubisnet.de
Thank you for your attention.
Best regards,
Björn
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Article on free software... reporting from India
Date: 14 Apr 2004 10:45:01 GMT
========== Forwarded message ==========
Hi everyone,
I have written an article on free software in India and Canada.
You can read it at:
http://www.rabble.ca/news_full_story.shtml?sh_itm=3d9755aef06d3654ab98d07488
e37a5a&r=1
There is also a discussion happening in the babble section:
http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=31&t=000211
Please send out to as many people as you can in India.
Cheers,
Frédéric Dubois
Independent journalist
Montreal, Canada
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From: Russell Marks <russell.marks@spam^H^H^H^Hntlworld.com>
Subject: zgv 5.8 - svgalib picture viewer with thumbnail-based file selector
Date: 14 Apr 2004 14:45:02 GMT
zgv is an svgalib (or SDL) picture viewer with a thumbnail-based file
selector. Most file formats are supported, and the thumbnails used are
compatible with xv, xzgv, and the Gimp. It can also be used with `zgv
file(s)', to effectively bypass the file selector.
zgv's homepage is here:
http://www.svgalib.org/rus/zgv/
You can also download it from ibiblio:
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/viewers/svga/zgv-5.8.tar.gz
The main additions/changes in this release are FreeBSD support,
improvements to the SDL backend (it's now quite comparable to the
native svgalib, but slower and lacking mouse support), and 15/16-bit
dithering.
Here's the changes relative to the previous version (from NEWS):
** New features
Added FreeBSD support, thanks to Radim Kolar for contributing this. Be
sure to read INSTALL in full before building zgv on FreeBSD, there's a
minor problem with it at the moment (nothing too horrible though :-)).
Added support for dithering in 15/16-bit modes. It's slower than I'd
hoped, so it's not enabled by default, but it seems to work well
enough. You can toggle it in the viewer by pressing `F', or add
`dither-hicol on' to a config file. Thanks to Stephane ODUL for
suggesting this.
Added `fullscreen' option, to override possible use of a windowed
display with non-svgalib backends in some situations, the obvious
example being the SDL backend running under X. This isn't necessarily
what you'd want, and has problems like not being able to fill the
screen in modes it doesn't support natively under svgalib. (And SDL
can cause further problems, from what I've seen.)
** Bugfixes
Fixed long-standing bug with interpolation (fix ported from xzgv). In
xzgv the bug could have caused segfaults, but I don't believe this was
the case in zgv due to the way it allocates memory.
Added SDL getbox routine, fixing one of the display glitches when
using that (dialogs not restoring previous screen contents).
Fixed missing-picture-update bug when doing certain mode changes under
SDL.
The SDL backend will now only ever use SDL's non-native-depth mode
emulation for 8-bit modes. This should improve picture quality when
only 8-bit modes are available, and make all modes other than
24/32-bit quite a bit faster. Thanks to David Matthews for inspiring
this change.
The SDL backend is now a lot more sensible about automatically picking
a file selector mode, and should have a better chance of working when
using a single-mode VESA framebuffer. Thanks to David Matthews for
indirectly spotting this problem.
Added timer start/stop to backend code, so now timer-based stuff (most
notably GIF animation) works ok under SDL.
Fixed colour glitches in dialogs under SDL.
** Other changes
Finally changed default installation prefix to /usr/local. `make
install' now removes any old version (both program and documentation)
in the old default locations.
Removed embedded LFs from src/bdf2h.c, which were causing compilation
errors with newer versions of gcc. Not strictly a bug - blame the gcc
folks :-), though to be fair there had been plenty of advance warning.
Thanks to Dimitar Zhekov for the patch.
Moved `fake-cols' toggle key from `F' to `G'.
Removed support for a repeat-timer setting of "-1" (i.e. constantly
reload the image), which had been broken previously anyway.
`x' now aborts GIF animation like Esc does. Thanks to Thomas M. Ott
for pointing out the inconsistency. Note that I don't consider
supporting this slightly pointless alternative to Esc to be terribly
important (e.g. dialogs don't support it and never have, and they've
been in zgv since 1993), and couldn't add it everywhere even if I
wanted to (e.g. change-to-arbitrary-directory dialog).
-Rus.
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