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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

You also have a GUI image viewer (xli) and Chris's sound package.

I compiled Kermit to work with BL1/BL3.  (Their posted version had some 
problem with floating point and it required ncurses).  James said he would 
post it.  It does Kermit dialing, Kermit file transfer, and ftp and a 
telnet that works when others fail and lets you do file transfer over the 
telnet connection (handy for use at sdf if you have not paid them for the 
use of ftp).  Ftpput failed us when the login started with a '.'.  It is 
about 2MB (1/3 that compressed for download).

Steven, could you compile the latest gs (8.30 or later) for BL3 or maybe 
statically for BL3/BL2?  The previous versions no longer handle current 
Adobe pdf format (1.5).  It might be enough to compile it for X (tho I 
would love to also have vgalib as in SW71 but not in 8.1) and the most 
common printers (epson, deskjet, any others?).  Perhaps you could make a 
smaller version with only one font, if you know how to get it working that 
way, and minimal documentation and other supporting files.  Does BL3 have 
the required dependencies already?  If not, you could compile them in if 
other programs listed below don't also need them.

Ghostview or some other gs frontend might also be handy.  I have 
discovered that xpdf provides better quality than bmv (but it did not work 
in real time until I put in 128MB RAM).  Bmv for some reason would not 
display with my Tseng card except in plain VGA (but perhaps I forgot to 
set the config file to Xvesa?).  The latest xpdf is available precompiled 
for glibc6 (I don't recall if it requires glibc 2.2.5 upgrade) but not 
glibc5.

A WORD convertor for BL3, unless what you compiled works for both BL2 and 
BL3.  I can try to compile Antiword 0.35 (or maybe there is a later 
version by now).  Chris mentioned catdoc and Excel format convertors - 
Chris, did you compile catdoc for BL3?  This is for those of us who don't 
really want 11MB of wordprocessor just to read the occasional WORD 
document.  Abiword supposedly incorporates the convertor wvware, which has 
worked for me (in DOS) where others failed.  I would appreciate a 
stand-alone version but cannot even figure out what to download for 
compiling it.

Does Sylpheed automatically encode/decode binary attachments?  Mutt let me 
do that (at least I recall sending them).


On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> To summarize, BL3 now has:
> --------------------------
> wordprocessor (AbiWord)
> spreadsheet (sc)
> database (SQLite)
> presentation (MagicPoint)
> GUI browser (links2)
> GUI mail client (sylpheed)
> file manager (mc)
> secure shell (ssh)
> --------------------------
>
> Are we missing any important applications?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
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