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

I wonder how we got so far off subject.

On subject, now that I have installed the full wget, it is counting all 
the bytes for me
6900K .> .......... .......... .........
while I play wdav with wget -O - http://|mpg123 -

A friend who tried straight mpg321 without wget said it stopped playing 
after 10 minutes, so wget is not the cause of this.

I am getting lovely quality mono sound with a 45333 connection, much 
better than the not-so-local radio (which I also play in mono for somewhat 
less hiss) and three of the five stations do not play the Met. Opera 
Saturday afternoon like all three of our stations here do, and in addition 
four of them don't play All Things Considered at 4, but rather music!  I 
am listening to some violin and piano music (Brahms) while typing this 
email (it adds a bit of lag).

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > So I should be able to safely delete all such libraries, and also
> > any .a library unless I want to compile something statically.  I
> > think I will stick with dynamic, including wvware, to save space,
> > especially since Abiword is available for BL3 already and includes
> > wvware.
>
> I certainly would if I were running out of HD spce.

I have 350MB of linux files and could save another 20MB by deleting all 
the .a libraries.  I have 1G space for linux but don't like to keep things 
I don't use.

> > > You can always run a ramdisk version.
> >
> > Yes but it will not do most of what I am using it for.
>
> A ramdisk isn't enough if you want to convert a TIFF? You don't even
> need one if you don't want the delilinux links2.

I do want the delilinux links2 because it works without X.
I can use it in fewer colors.  It would be a nuisance to run ramdisk BL to 
do tiffs - I already have BL3 set up and could install the netpbm programs 
there and chroot to it.

 >
> > I might put theses libraries in /usr/libc5 - or is there a more
> > traditional place to put libc5 libraries on a libc6 linux?
>
> I don't think there is a traditional place.
>
> > Can I make a script  libc5
> >
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/libc5" %1 %2

Isn't %1 %2 two arguments?  I would need to specify the program and the 
file it acts on (tiff or pnm).

> > Then type
> >
> > libc5 tifftopnm filename.tiff > filename.png  ?
> >
> > Similarly for pnmtotiff pngtopnm pnmtopng.
>
> Yes. Of course, you're limited to just one argument. I would do
>
> #!/bin/sh
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/libc5" exec "*@"

I thought exec was only used in X.  What does *@ mean and how would I run 
tifftopnm with this script?  Do I substitute tifftpnm for "*@"?


> > It would be nice if libc5-dependent programs would just look in a
> > different place for their libraries.  It is possible to do that?
>
> I don't think so. To my knowledge, both versions look in exactly the
> same place. It seems that the only choices are to only have one
> version, or to deal with the problems.
>
> David
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