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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:

> > Many thanks to David Moberg for creating the uclibc, statically-linked
> > executables of msmtp and fetchmail, and the new pppd-2.4.1 dynamically
> > linked libc5, for me. (And anyone who asks me for them. I don't have
> > a website right now, but will netcat them over.)
>
> You could ask David to post them, and/or I could do so.

http://davidjmoberg.googlepages.com/ppp-2.4.1-i486-libc5.tgz
http://davidjmoberg.googlepages.com/fetchmail-6.2.5-i486-uclibc0.tgz
http://davidjmoberg.googlepages.com/msmtp-1.4.0-i486-uclibc0.tgz

I ran out of space at the other site. I should move stuff from there
over to here. If there is interest, I can put these on my BL3 page.

The latest version of ppp is 2.4.3, released two years ago. I do not
know how it differs from 2.4.1. The BL3 pppd is perfect if you stay
with a sane kernel (i.e. 2.2.27 or earlier).

> > debian 5923 directories, 434851 files 3.2G
> >
> > BL 116 directories, 974 files 23M
>
> What programs does this include?  Abiword is a biggie (12MB).  The few
> times I tried to use it to edit WORD files it botched the format.

Serious Word editing requires OpenOffice or the real thing, I think.
Even then it's hit-or-miss for anything complicated. Not really much
better than "strings file.doc".

> Could not even import tables.

AbiWord 1 doesn't do tables.

> >> Would this also work with the busybox vi (in the version I compiled,
> >> 1.1.0)?
>
> I tested and it displays the man pages with tags, same as less does.

I wonder if sed can be used to convert the manroff formatting to ANSI codes.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=manroff+to+ansi

Hmm, looks like no one else is doing that. If I have time I might be
able to write a BL sed script to do that. Or maybe Lee could. He seems
to know a lot about shell/sed and that sort of thing.

> >>> But how much longer will floppies even be manufactured?
> >>
> >> I keep everything on hard disk.  My 1.44MB floppies are always failing.
> >> THe 720s last longer, 360K's almost forever.  We are now using USB memory
> >> sticks for most file transfers, or zip drive (parport) if no USB>
> >
> > Are those not using volatile RAM? If so, how can you trust them?

They seem to be more durable than hard drives physically (you can drop
them off a table, for example) and nothing short of an EMP or short
circuit should be able to erase them without a computer. If you shield
them correctly and take care of them, they should last for centuries.

> > Lee
>
> Sindi

David