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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] base64 (MIME) encoder/decoder
  • Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:30:15 +0000 (UTC)

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

Maybe you and Lee can put together something smaller and more versatile than pmail for the next BL, which does authentication and base64.

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).

I did not follow what this version does better than the older one.

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".

antiword to convert doc to text followed by a wordprocessor is what I usually use, but they wanted tabular format returned.

Could not even import tables.

AbiWord 1 doesn't do tables.



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.

That would be lovely. man2html | lynx is not quite adequate for the mplayer documentation.

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.

I thought USB memory sticks wore out after 10,000 cycles or so.

The friend who told us to go get an $8-after-rebate $50-marked-down-to-$16 1.0G stick just before Christmas at some chain office store just dropped
off another one that he got free (they gave him two) this week from the same store. I hope some day 2.2.28 can deal with these. But DOS 7.1 with drivers works. (Posted at my site).

Lee

Sindi

David

Sindi




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