Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-09-19 Thread Ian Kelling
Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Does the manual format properly in TeX? The pdf

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-09-18 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Thanks for sending me the info. I have noted it down, but Bob took care of this for

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-09-06 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Hi rms. texi2pdf c.texi worked fine for me; no error messages or other > proble

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-09-06 Thread Karl Berry
Does the manual format properly in TeX? Hi rms. texi2pdf c.texi worked fine for me; no error messages or other problems from TeX, and the output looked just fine. Happy hacking, Karl

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-09-05 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Does the manual format properly in TeX? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.or

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-09-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Stallman wrote: > Thanks. I execited those commands, and it seems they worked. > What do you see in the repo? I see the files in the repo. I can run "make" and produce a "c-manual.tgz" file. Everything looks good to me. Bob

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-09-03 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Thanks. I execited those commands, and it seems they worked. What do you see in the

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-09-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Stallman wrote: > > What name do you want to use for the principal branch? Then specific > > instructions could be supplied. > > Let's use `trunk'. > > > And actually it might be simplest if I were to reach into the remote > > git repository and set that as the default branch name,

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-09-01 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > What name do you want to use for the principal branch? Then specific > instruc

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Stallman wrote: > I decided not to publish the old versions. Not ony would have > complicated matters, there is also the issue that they don't have > licenses. That does simplify things greatly. > The one thing I still need is to know how to specify the name of the > principal branch. I

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-30 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Thanks for the detailed instructions. I am glad that you recovered from Covid. >

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-29 Thread Ineiev
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:11:56AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > > > then publish your > > branch with git push, using the appropriate options if you choose to > > use a branch name different from "master". > > Can someone please tell me how to do that? > I know how to use `git push' wit

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-29 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I am surprised. I thought you had committed those files. -- Dr Richard Stallman (h

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-29 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > then publish your > branch with git push, using the appropriate options if you

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Stallman wrote: > I am using trisquel 10. > > > apt install ca-certificates > > I did that. I will see if it works better. I think not having ca-certificates installed is the root cause of this problem with https certificates not being validated properly. I think and I hope that instal

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-28 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I think this is either a bug fixed in newer software Which newer software?

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-28 Thread Ineiev
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 12:06:23AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > > > Note that the repository is as of my testing just now still empty. > > Example from my account. > > Strange. I sent the files to ineyev last weke, and I thought he > had committed them. No, I didn't. I used them to fil

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-27 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Note that the repository is as of my testing just now still empty. > Example fr

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-27 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The project is declared GNU and if you went to the nongnu.org address > it woul

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Ian, I trimmed the recipient list for this auxilary information discussion. Ian Kelling wrote: > Richard Stallman writes: > > fatal: unable to access > > 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/p/c-intro-and-ref/': server certificate > > verification failed. CAfile: none CRLfile: none > > I think

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Ineiev wrote: > Richard Stallman wrote: > > I tried giving my SSH password and then > > > > git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/c-intro-and-ref > > That command is for anonymous clone; no password is needed. I think you will want commit access. Which requires ssh protocol. Please use thi

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-26 Thread Ian Kelling
Richard Stallman writes: > I tried giving my SSH password and then > > git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/c-intro-and-ref > > but it gave me an error > > fatal: unable to access > 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/p/c-intro-and-ref/': server certificate > verification failed. CAfile

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-25 Thread Ineiev
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 11:34:54PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > The i

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-25 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The instructions for the git repository are given on > https://savannah.nongnu.

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Stallman wrote: > > The instructions for the git repository are given on > > https://savannah.nongnu.org/git/?group=c-intro-and-ref > > This is a GNU package -- have you put it in https://savannah.nongnu.org/? > If so, please move it to https://savannah.gnu.org/git/, and ack. I think t

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-15 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The instructions for the git repository are given on > https://savannah.nongnu.

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-11 Thread Ineiev
On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 10:46:36PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: ... > I wasn't sure, at first, but now I've decided to start with the > current source, not including old versions. > > So I put them in a tar ball which is in ~rms/c-manual.tgz on fencepost. > Can you see it there? Yes, thank you

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-08-10 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I asked > > Would you please change that to a git repository? You replied > Su

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-05-29 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] These are the source files that I put into the tarball. I think these are the only f

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-05-27 Thread Ineiev
On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 06:09:14PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > > Would you please change that to a git repository? Sure, but I miss some data. Can you show me the files you are going to commit initially? I think that would most probably resolve all my questions. signature.asc Description:

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-05-26 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Would you please change that to a git repository? People will mostlu like that better

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-04-25 Thread Ineiev
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 11:55:40PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > > Let's call it this name: > > GNU C Intro and Reference > > > That would do more than just enable the reps to coexist: it would > explain the substantial difference between the two. I've just created a new group with a CVS reposi

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-04-23 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Let's call it this name: GNU C Intro and Reference That would do more than just en

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-04-21 Thread Ineiev
On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 12:22:17AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > > Is it something completely different? > > Yes, totally, and enormously better. From this one, you can actually > learn C. > > > We should treat them as two different works. But how? > > We could call this repo something d

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-04-21 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
How about reusing the gnu-c-manual Savannah project; the old gnu-c-manual git repository is then renamed to gnu-c-reference-manual or old-gnu-c-manual. And put the new GNU C book into gnu-c-manual or whatever title the book will have.

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-04-20 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Savannah already hosts an official GNU package named GNU C Reference > Manual,

Re: Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual

2022-04-19 Thread Ineiev
On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 10:41:16PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > > Please make a repo for the GNU C Manual I have written. > It is still unpublished; I would like to publish it there. > > I prefer CVS, but I suppose people will be happier if it uses git. > WDYT? Savannah already hosts an offi