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

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > I wonder how we got so far off subject.
>
> Deleted old subject lines...
>
> > 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.

You deleted the old subject line too soon ;=)

> mpg321 or mpg123? mpg123 hasn't ever died on me in midstream, except
> when I use it on a wget'ed file (the file has an EOF, which mpg123
> takes as a signal to quit).
321, he says.  He thought 123 was proprietary.

> > I already have BL3 set up and could
> > install the netpbm programs there and chroot to it.
>
> Odd that I never even thought of that. Yes, this seems to be a good
> solution. Learning to chroot is a very useful skill.

But this is not going to help other users of BL2, for whom I would like 
another solution.  Let's just hope they are not using delilinux links2.
The BL3 links2 should work in BL2, I just don't like X.

I tried to use Abiword while chrooted and could not get it to work.


> > > > 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).
>
> Oh yeah, in ash I believe it's $1 $2, not %1 %2. $1 = program name,
> $2 = first argument to a program.

So if I change the above to $1 $2 (where is it %?) it should let me do the 
following?

> > > > 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 "*@"
>
>
> Another typo. :( It should be exec "$@". Dollar sign instead of
> asterisk.
>
> > I thought exec was only used in X.
>
> It is used anywhere. It basically means to have the program
> which is exec'ed take over the script. Any line after a
> successful exec line is ignored.
>
> > What does *@ mean
>
> You should recognize the correct one: $@. The bzcat script I
> posted earlier uses it. It's equivalent to $1 $2 $3 $4 $5...
> ad infinitum.

> > and how would
> > I run tifftopnm with this script?  Do I substitute tifftpnm for
> > "*@"?
>
> You would run it the same way as the %1 %2 version that you made.
> It just allows you many more arguments.

When would I want more arguments, besides the program and the file it is 
converting?

> David