On Sun, 5 Apr 1998 22:43:28 +0100, Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Well, it's not broken, but we have no way to use pristine sources with
>multiple-tar packages, so it may be improved (and it should).
And there are *still* no source dependencies yet... Are there any
plans about this i
> 1) Newbie will ask "why I can't removed file X? I do all that they say
> in the *Linux is Great - 101 Book* (hoping not to enfrange any
> copyright here).
Probaby not just newbies. :-)
> 2) If, as a SysAdmin, I decided to put some file immutable, I
> certainly don't want a program like dpkg (w
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 01:01:46 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It's related to the fact that egcs does exception handling - add
>> -fno-exceptions to your CFLAGS, and you'll get a shorter binary.
>
>I think this is not the right way to think of C++ programming. If you don't
>use
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 07:18:33AM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
> > Anyway, I remember a Slackware trick to set the default prompt for many
> > different shells. Could not we do the same?
>
> Am I the only one who thinks the only correct prompts would be '$ ' and '#
> '?
I hope so. I know pro
On Sun, April 5, Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My assumption is that /bin/sh is VERY important to the system. All
> server scripts use it. A dangling symlink could be hazardous. Also,
> some systems initially mount only certain directories. And /etc is
> sometimes on a different partition
>However, I'm willing to set default root's prompt in base-files to
>'\h:\w\$ ' if enough people prefer it to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ '.
I would prefer '\h:\w\$ '
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Howdy,
could anybode explain this to me?
kuolema!root(ttyp0):/tmp/initrd# ldd /bin/sleep
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x4000f000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4003c000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000)
kuolema!root(ttyp0):/tmp/initrd# dpkg -l
I've started getting messages like the following from upgrading
packages:
Do you want to install the files fetched [y]:
Installing files...
(Reading database ... 28597 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xbase 3.3.2-2 (using .../x11/xbase_3.3.2-3.deb) ...
xdm and xfs n
I noticed in /var/log/kernel.log that there are lots of messages
like the following:
Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17
Apr 7 18:57:49 everybody kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:02):
ext2_new_block:
Free blocks count corrupted for block group 17
Apr 7 18:58:22 ever
> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998 18:18:57 -0700 (PDT), Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
Robert> On Sun, April 5, Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My assumption is that /bin/sh is VERY important to the system.
>> All server scripts use it. A dangling symlink could be hazardous.
>>
Ben Gertzfield writes:
> I've started getting messages like the following from upgrading
> packages:
>
> Do you want to install the files fetched [y]:
> Installing files...
> (Reading database ... 28597 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace xbase 3.3.2-2 (using .../x11
Hi,
>>"David" == David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> If we won't even set a default prompt, what business do we have
David> doing things like:
[Setting up IP spoofing protection...]
Well, maybe we are closer to achieving a consensus about what
one should do wrt ip spoofing,
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Steve Hsieh wrote:
> On 5 Apr 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> > > Oh I'm all for switching to HTTP. Can we convince all our mirrors to
> > > switch?
> >
> > I'm going through the mirror list and building a sources.list of all the
> > possible sources. I have 8 sites already
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory S. Stark) writes:
> Am I the only one who thinks the only correct prompts would be '$ ' and '# '?
>
> Barring that I suggest leaving the defaults, 'bash$' et. al.
You're not the only one. I also prefer to leave the defaults.
Any prompt in /etc/profile would be overri
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 10:24:42PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"David" == David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> David> If we won't even set a default prompt, what business do we have
> David> doing things like:
> [Setting up IP spoofing protection...]
>
> Well, maybe we
I need some advice in installing Debian 1.3.
I have booted the machine with a SCSI bus V30PCI using a rescue
floppy. The hard disk and a NEC cdrom were recognized without any problem.
Then I followed all installation instructions.
After I booted Linux, I ran dselect but I
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Robert Woodcock wrote:
> Another idea I got on IRC was providing a --background flag to
> start-stop-daemon so that daemons could be started in parallel - this
> might have quite an effect on SMP systems, and DNS misconfigs would be
> more treatable if sendmail started in the b
Hello,
Looking for support for Qmail's maildir format in Debian packages,
I came up with empty hands.
Would it be possible to add this to the debian policy to have
Maildir support in packages like mailx, pine and imapd? Is there
another mechanism to make debian support this format?
Thanks,
--A
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Alex Romosan wrote:
> you can get an xteddy debian package by anonymous ftp from
> caliban.lbl.gov in /pub/debian. i am happy to see this finally become
> part of the distribution.
OK, I've finished building an xteddy Debian Package and I'll take over
maintainance when finished
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> I have been working on this, and expect to release this package
> soon. (Actually, it is two binary packages from one source.)
>
> wordnet (which you mentioned in your message) is one of the 7
> dictionary databases made available by the DICT g
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 09:43:08AM +0300, Amos Shapira wrote:
> Looking for support for Qmail's maildir format in Debian packages, I came
> up with empty hands.
Look more closely. Mutt handles maildir.
> Would it be possible to add this to the debian policy to have Maildir
> support in packages l
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Would it be possible to add this to the debian policy to have Maildir
> > support in packages like mailx, pine and imapd?
>
> AFAIK there is no DFSG-free MTA that supports Maildir. Therefore I don't
> think that Maildir support should be obligatory
On Tue 07 Apr 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> After I booted Linux, I ran dselect but I got an error
> during mounting a CD:
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/sda /cdrom
SCSI cdrom devices are /dev/scd0, /dev/scd1, ...
Also -oro (for readonly) should be given, else you might get a w
Hi folks,
This has been reported as a bug (#20572), but since it passed me by, I thought
I'd mention it here and save people some aggravation.
bash_2.01.1-1 is lacking a pre-depends on libreadlineg2_2.1-8, and will start
segfaulting if you just let dselect do an upgrade, which kills all subseq
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 01:47:53AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > AFAIK there is no DFSG-free MTA that supports Maildir. Therefore I don't
> > think that Maildir support should be obligatory via Debian policy.
>
> Exim does.
In that case I'm in fav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 09:43:08AM +0300, Amos Shapira wrote:
> > Looking for support for Qmail's maildir format in Debian packages, I came
> > up with empty hands.
>
> Look more closely. Mutt handles maildir.
Thanks.
> > Would it be possible to add this to the debi
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Bug assigned to package `xbase'.
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Bug assigned to package `xbase'.
> reassign 20741 xserver-vga16
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Hello,
yesterday I updated all my installed hamm files. However, the following
error occured in former times, too.
If I login on my local the ftp server
ftp://bridge.physik.uni-halle.de
I can't get any directory information via `dir` or `ls` command.
I can switch directories (`cd pub`
I installed wu-ftpd now, but all is the same :-(((
I want to make some files available (my prepackaged Debian files)
but I'm affraid that potential downloaders will be confused by
this behaviour.
Please help
Andreas.
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>
> yesterday I updated all my installed hamm files. However, the following
> error occured in former times, too.
>
> If I login on my local the ftp server
>
> ftp://bridge.physik.uni-halle.de
>
> I can't get any directory information via `dir` or `ls` command.
> I can switch
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>Packages someone could package for Debian 2.1
> * A pdftex package, for a version of TeX/LaTeX which directly
>generates PDF.
>
pdftex is a part of tetex-0.9 which just made its way to master.
Christoph
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On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 08:39:40PM -0700, Guy Maor wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory S. Stark) writes:
> > Am I the only one who thinks the only correct prompts would be '$ ' and '#
> > '?
> > Barring that I suggest leaving the defaults, 'bash$' et. al.
> You're not the only one. I also pref
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>Finally, it installs all the selected packages without asking the user
>20 times in a row if they prefer XV (or which dictionary they prefer).
[...]
>(The dictionary issue isn't as important since fewer people install
>E
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 01:01:46AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> However, you can give the compiler a hint that a function does not throw any
> exceptions by adding throw() at the right place:
>
> class ABC {
> ABC (int theInt) throw();
> }
Shouldn't the compiler still handle eceptions in fu
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 07:45:23PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>Xteddy is a cuddly teddy bear for your X Windows desktop. It is more or
>less an excersise for package bundling and maintaining.
Well, you could make it a coding exercise by modifying it to be able to
choose a pixmap through t
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, you could make it a coding exercise by modifying it to be able to
> choose a pixmap through the commandline. "xpenguin" or "xcaptainblueeye" :-)
Adding xpenguin is a very nice idea. I will try to include it into
xteddy.deb. But who is xcaptainb
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 02:18:07PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> But who is xcaptainblueeye???
If I remember correctly, "Captain Blueeye" is the name of the entity
depicted in the Debian logo.
Come to think of it, xtux might be a better name than xpenguin (as the Linux
Penguin is called "Tux").
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Falk Hueffner) writes:
> It seems that programs are larger even if they do not use exceptions
> at all (possibly even C programs). For those, it seems totally
> resonable to disable exceptions. It should probably even added to the
> policy, since it saves space.
>
> Falk
Hi,
I am having problems with lftp's filename completion. When I press ,
the program segfaults in a somewhat predictable manner. Does anyone have
the same problem? If there are more people with this problem, should I
file a bug report against lftp? I think it should at least have severity
'importa
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 04:20:07PM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> I am using lftp 0.14.3.980328-1
Upgrade.
>From the new changelog:
lftp (0.14.3.980402-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release:
* null dereference in rglob.cc fixed (very nasty bug! lftp was giving
cor
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> [...] I think it should at least have severity
> 'important', so I first want to be sure that this is a real bug.
It is always a bug if a program segfaults.
However, I don't think this one is 'important'. I'd say the
distribution is better off with lftp than without, eve
Hi,
when I start ddd (from ddd-smotif) on a remote hamm system it cannot
resolve the hostname given in the DISPLAY variable:
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for pcrz64
If I set the DISPLAY to the IP address, it is ok.
Other X11 applications don't show this problem.
I argue that
> "andreas" == Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
andreas> I installed wu-ftpd now, but all is the same :-(((
running libc6 hamm/frozen, right? this is a already reported and
known bug in the `addftpuser' script (see e.g. #12236, #17110, etc).
the point is that the script copies l
Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The point is new users.
Then we should be talking about /etc/skel/, rather than /etc/profile
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Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>what hardware would be best for this project. Is the Alpha
>distribution ready for prime-time? What about SMP boards? We'd like
>to get the most bang for our buck, but don't have the man
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Amos Shapira wrote:
> I was thinking more of things like IMAPD, qpopper, and the
> c-client library, which have patches for maildir support
> available for them, they just have to be integrated into the
> "official" debian package (e.g. it looks like the procmail support
> wa
>OK, I've finished building an xteddy Debian Package and I'll take over
>maintainance when finished the procedure to become an official Debian
>maintainer. Did you plan to maintain XTeddy too or was your package only for
>private uses. I'm not intended to catch your job ;-).
good job. my xteddy
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does the maintainers file also contain the people on the qa
> and testing teams and others who do not upload packages?
no, and it does not contain the porters to the various
non-intel architectures.
IIRC there is a developers dat
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/binary-i386/
^
better use
nonus.debian.org
jjm
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On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The point is new users.
>
> Then we should be talking about /etc/skel/, rather than /etc/profile
Well, if we talk about /etc/skel, then we could ask:
Is there any other shell
Hi,
I plan on packaging up Quinn Diff despite reservations I have, because
enough people have asked me to. Quinn Diff is a program for comparing
the Packages files of two architectures to see what needs recompiled
on the secondary architecture. See
http://thor.lib.chalmers.se/~jamest/quinn-diff
On Apr 07, Falk Hueffner decided to present us with:
> On Sun, 5 Apr 1998 22:43:28 +0100, Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >Well, it's not broken, but we have no way to use pristine sources with
> >multiple-tar packages, so it may be improved (and it should).
>
> And there are *st
As I said, I want to appoint the Technical Committee. However, I
would like to gather some input from the developers before I decide on
my preferred committee.
So: if you feel someone is technically excellent and likely otherwise
to be overlooked (for example, because they've not been active very
James A.Treacy writes ("Re: Constitution - formal proposal (v0.6)"):
> [Ian:]
> > I disapprove of the idea of automation.
> >
> > s4.2(5):
> > Proposals, seconds, amendments, calls for votes and other formal
> > actions are made by announcement on a public-readable electronic
> >
Bernd Eckenfels writes:
> If you have installed a current MAP File for the kernel (which is done
> automatically by the kernel installer package), syslogd/klogd will be able
> to read this and will display all Ptr references in lines from the kernel
> with the resolved symbol.
It doesn't conta
I've just lost my email file (/var/spool/mail/bridgett) for some unknown
reason. My sorted mail in /home/bridgett/mail/ is fine.
a) Warning - backup your mail file
b) has anyone else had this?
A Seriously PO Adrian
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Hello everyone,
This is a short note to let people know that I'm in the process of
packaging the Safe/Fast I/O library, otherwise known as sfio. It
provides an alternate to stdio as a C API for performing I/O. It's main
claim to fame is the ability to attach filters -- known as disciplines --
to
On Apr 07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] decided to present us with:
> hello i was wondering if anyone knew how to cross compile from
> linux for dos/win95. i wrote a lot of c code using the curses.h
> library and it does not port to borland or turbo c. is there
> some way i can tell gcc to compile it for
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> could anybode explain this to me?
>
> kuolema!root(ttyp0):/tmp/initrd# ldd /bin/sleep
> libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x4000f000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4003c000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40
Hi All,
I've been following the discussion on the default profile
prompt. When I first loaded Linux on my system I used a
Slackware version packaged with a book a couple of years ago.
Though Slackware had no upgradability at the time, I switched
debian. But I noticed that Slackware provided fo
i finally got around to applying to become a debian developer. so i
want to announce here my intention to package the following programs:
f77reorder
f77 compiler script calling f2c/gcc. Handles some fortran 77
extensions by calling f77reorder to change the code.
vat
The LBNL audio tool, v
> This is precisely the aspect I disagree with. There are a number of
> problems with this kind of thing.
>
> Firstly, with an automated system developers' abilities to do things
> will be dependent on the bot's interpretation of what is allowed - the
> bot becomes the governor of the procedure r
Can someone hack dinstall to install packages which are not PGP signed
but has been copied to incoming? If the UID of the files is the one of a
developer we can know who did upload the package.
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On Tue, 07 Apr 1998 08:22:55 -0600 Anthony Fok wrote:
> ( ) I18N/L10N (?) -- packages for the world. :-)
> * European languages
> * Japanese packages (kon2, wnn, emacs20-mule (?), canna, kterm,
> doc-jp-linux, etc.)
> * Chinese packages (xcin, xfntbig5p-cmex24m, doc-zh-l
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 08:23:48PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Can someone hack dinstall to install packages which are not PGP signed
> but has been copied to incoming? If the UID of the files is the one of a
> developer we can know who did upload the package.
No. We know which account the upload
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Can someone hack dinstall to install packages which are not PGP signed
> but has been copied to incoming? If the UID of the files is the one of a
> developer we can know who did upload the package.
Definatly not an option, since people uploading anonymou
When you have been through hundreds of meetings, one of the things
you learn is that communication is extremely important. It is
critical to know what people's intentions are. Critical to know what
the current state of affairs are. It is the normally the job of
the chair of a meeting to make decisi
Is there any reason for libc6-dev to depend on gcc and not on any
c-compiler ?
As it is now I can't keep egcs as my only compiler without breaking
dependencies. Either libc6-dev should depend on c-compiler or egcs provide
gcc. Am I missing something here??
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my fault - I was messing with emacs and something went screwy. Something
moved my mail spool to ~/RMAIL.
Phew - while :; do echo "I *will* keep backups" ;done
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On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, James A.Treacy wrote:
> This seemed a natural and orderly extension of implementing the
> constitution. If Ian feels that this is unacceptable for some
> reason, I will make a formal amendment to the constitution
> stating that it be allowed.
>
While I agree with the merrits
Hello,
the broken grep (I think it is filed as a Bug already) will do a lot of
damage to your system. It will kill your Windowmanger -list if you install a
Windowmanager, and it will make the /etc/X11/config not work
(user-xsession).
Greetings
Bernd
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I just got a call from a friend who said they had just heard that NPR was
doing a piece on Linux. It should be on right after the news, so I hope
this gets through the mail server pretty fast ;-)
Later,
Dwarf
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On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Nuno Ferreira wrote:
> Is there any reason for libc6-dev to depend on gcc and not on any
> c-compiler ?
> As it is now I can't keep egcs as my only compiler without breaking
> dependencies. Either libc6-dev should depend on c-compiler or egcs provide
> gcc. Am I missing some
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Nuno Ferreira wrote:
> Is there any reason for libc6-dev to depend on gcc and not on any
> c-compiler ?
> As it is now I can't keep egcs as my only compiler without breaking
> dependencies. Either libc6-dev should depend on c-compiler or egcs provide
> gcc. Am I missing some
Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[ sleep is linked with libcrypt ]
> That's weird since it's in fact linked with libcrypt, but doesn't
> seem to use _any_ function/symbols from this lib:
Everything in shellutils is linked with libcrpyt, build it from source
and see.
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OK, it has played here in the East. Those of you out west still have
some time to find a radio ;-) I think it is the second piece on "All
Things Considered" after the news.
This was a very good presentation for a public forumn. They pointed to all
the right facts; talked about Linux clusters outpe
Anyone have a digitized copy of this? :)
Thanks,
Jeff
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 05:58:26PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> OK, it has played here in the East. Those of you out west still have
> some time to find a radio ;-) I think it is the second piece on "All
> Things Considered" after the news.
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> .
>* need mktemp so depend on debianutils >= 1.8
>
I notice several packages in my available file that depend on debianutils. As
it is essential/required, this doesn't need to be done. This partitcular
package isn't in my available yet(still in Incom
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> OK, it has played here in the East. Those of you out west still have
> some time to find a radio ;-) I think it is the second piece on "All
> Things Considered" after the news.
>
> This was a very good presentation for a public forumn. They pointed to al
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
: Anyone have a digitized copy of this? :)
Look on www.npr.org later tonight. The 'current' page still has the pieces
from the 7th... All the interesting stuff on NPR becomes available via
RealAudio shortly after broadcast.
Bdale
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On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> .
>* need mktemp so depend on debianutils >= 1.8
>
I notice several packages in my available file that depend on debianutils.
As
it is essential/required, this doesn't need to be done. This partitcular
package isn't in my availa
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 11:14:17PM +, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> It seems that programs are larger even if they do not use exceptions
> at all (possibly even C programs). For those, it seems totally
> resonable to disable exceptions. It should probably even added to the
> policy, since it saves spa
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 02:58:39PM +0300, Amos Shapira wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 01:01:46AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > However, you can give the compiler a hint that a function does not throw any
> > exceptions by adding throw() at the right place:
> >
> > class ABC {
> > ABC (int
I'm looking into packaging CMU's coda distributed filesystem. It is based on
AFS, with enhancements to allow disconnected use. There are kernel drivers for
it in the 2.1.x series and they are available as patches for the 2.0.x series.
Seeing that there are other kernel module packages available
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Exception handling is a powerful feature, and makes other global error
> strategies mostly unnecessary. Therefore the size of compiled and well
> written C++ programs will not be larger than an equivalent C program. *And*
> the source code will be muc
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Adam Heath wrote:
> There are also other packages that have dependencies on essential packages.
> It was my understanding that this doesn't have to be done.
There is meaning for depending on specific versions of essential packages
because the package may require some new func
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 05:15:59PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
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> > Exception handling is a powerful feature, and makes other global error
> > strategies mostly unnecessary. Therefore the size of compiled and well
> > written C++ programs will no
I am running a pretty much up to date hamm system with egcs g++, etc.
Compiling the most recent snapshot of xtide2 (found at
http://www.universe.digex.net/~dave/files) resulted in the following errors.
The author of the program instantly revised the source file. I am attaching
his comments. The
Just played in AZ, US.
I had to listen to 50 minutes of crap about presidents and big
companies ! They should have put Linux first.
Stallman may be a bit of a crank, but I'd be upset too about GNU
being downplayed out of existence.
John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tucson
I added one line to the tcsh code, which seems to fix the infinite
loop problem. I sent the patch to the author and the Debian maintainer 24
hrs. ago. I expect to hear something over the next few days.
Perhaps the author will make a better fix.
If someone can't wait that long, m
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