Re: Debian's problems, Debian's future

2002-04-06 Thread Peter Cordes
7;t needed because not many packages are updated in a day, and downloading a few extra package descriptions is no problem.) I think this all works :) The only hard part is finding the right offset in a gzipped file given that you know how much of the begging of two uncompressed files match. --

Re: potential runtime problem on arm, powerpc and s390 due to incorrect assumption on char signedness

2002-01-14 Thread Peter Cordes
k down the individual bugs. Char might be unsigned for a reason, like that it's faster to use unsigned char on that arch, so the best solution is still to say signed char where you mean it, use int with getchar, etc. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.c

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-27 Thread Peter Cordes
:end-of-line > "\e[e":end-of-line > -- Is "\EOF" really what your file says here? maybe \E isn't treated as escape, so bash is looking for a literal "E" to be followed by "OF", and then it will go to the end of the line. (Try that, typing &qu

re: stuffit expander?

2000-03-27 Thread Peter Cordes
sit (stuffit) archives? I think you want the macutils package. Peter Cordes

Re: Bash and Letter E

2000-03-27 Thread Peter Cordes
eadline4.) Try using showkey(1) to see what pressing 'E' does on your hardware. Also try dumpkeys and loadkeys, to see if the keymaps are ok. Maybe you have a weird setting in /etc/inputrc? Is there such a config file? To see what bash is reading in, try strace -e file bash -login

Re: glibc-compat

2000-03-25 Thread Peter Cordes
i386-glibc20-linux/lib on the compile command line. Well, the compiler binary itself works, right? You should be able to use the same solution, by using alien to install the rpm, and using the -L argument to the compiler. -- #define X(x,y) x##y DUPS Secretary ; http://is2.dal.ca/~dups/ Peter Cordes

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-25 Thread Peter Cordes
> Date: 24 Mar 2000 11:43:38 +0100 > From: Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: blue on black is unreadable > > Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Unless the darkish colours get used as alt

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-24 Thread Peter Cordes
r ls looks bad on it. It would be nice if something changed so that a newly installed system had easy-to-read terminals which used readable colours for ls, mutt, jed, etc. As long as these conditions are met, I don't really mind if we don't have black bg xterms by default, since I can al

Re: glibc-compat

2000-03-23 Thread Peter Cordes
script to set LD_PRELOAD.) Is there a way to do it at all without using chroot or hacking ld.so for special cases? Obviously it is possible, but is it possible practically and usefully? -- #define X(x,y) x##y DUPS Secretary ; http://is2.dal.ca/~dups/ Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-23 Thread Peter Cordes
> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:56:52 -0600 > From: Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: blue on black is unreadable > > On 21-Mar-00, 20:06 (CST), Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Linux text con

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-23 Thread Peter Cordes
one should have in their PATH. (oh yeah, did I mention that /usr/sbin should be the default PATH after you install the base system. Oh, I think I did. hehe :) One thing we should _not_ do is to have things in two places at once, with symlinks. That just sucks, IMHO :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y DUPS Secretary ; http://is2.dal.ca/~dups/ Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , dal.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: blue on black is unreadable (was Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors)

2000-03-23 Thread Peter Cordes
> now that you have discovered the awful secret of debian, the secret > cabal will have to take care of you. wait right where you are. there > will be a knock on the door shortly. > > craig TINC

Re: Compiling Error

2000-03-23 Thread Peter Cordes
ile?errfile:stderr) This is easier than explicitly checking at the top of every function which uses it. I ran into this problem when hacking the Linux-lab-project <http://www.llp.fu-berlin.de/> GPIB drivers for a glibc 2.1 system (rh6.0). -- #define X(x,y) x##y DUPS Secretary ; htt

apt-get cron job

2000-03-22 Thread Peter Cordes
#define X(x,y) x##y DUPS Secretary ; http://is2.dal.ca/~dups/ Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , dal.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-22 Thread Peter Cordes
ynx. this is brighter than default */ #define BLUE_COLOUR #ff XTerm*color4: BLUE_COLOUR XTerm*color12: BLUE_COLOUR XTerm*SimpleMenu.background:yellow XTerm*SimpleMenu*foreground:black XTerm*reverseWrap: true This makes ANSI blue nice and readable, in bold and n