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(question) Determining delivery of data to remote end 1 20 (4/22/2007 12:36:56 AM) comp.os.linux.networking It's not a homework. But, I didn't come out of CS, so... Suppose I send a char to a remote machine. How do I know it received it? - If I write(2) to a socket and check that it returns 1 byte writte... William

(patch for Bash) 'protobase', 'multi' 0 46 (3/31/2007 7:32:17 AM) comp.unix.shell If you have never heard of SDC's Protobase or Tender's Multi, then this is not for you. :-) If you know what they are, then the 2 builtin commands are designed to read/write their respective API formats, so th... William

(patch for Bash) 'vcat', 'vset', 'vfile' 0 52 (3/31/2007 6:42:08 AM) comp.unix.shell These 3 builtin commands are designed to "dump" and "reload" shell variables to/from file, without going through another layer of interpretation or parsing. In addition to reading/writing simple string for ord... William

(patch for Bash) crypt(3) 7 86 (5/16/2006 12:06:46 AM) comp.unix.shell I added a shell wrapper for crypt(3) which is used for password on Linux. crypt key salt Shell wrapper for crypt(3), which is used for password encryption. Encripted output is printed to stdout. Eg. ... William

Video (.mpg/.avi) to iPod (.mp4) converter 9 46 (1/11/2006 9:47:28 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi all, (Sorry... reposted with new Subject.) I got 30GB iPod for Christmas. I would like to try out its video capability. iPod plays the following formats: * H.264 File formats: .m4v, .mp4, a... William

Re: Returning Values from Bash Scripts 0 35 (1/11/2006 9:46:05 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi all, I got 30GB iPod for Christmas. I would like to try out its video capability. iPod plays the following formats: * H.264 File formats: .m4v, .mp4, and .mov Video: Up to 768 kbits/sec, ... William

CM vs. Type1 fonts -- which one? 4 28 (10/21/2005 8:03:43 PM) comp.text.tex Hello, More and more people are telling me I should use Type1 fonts instead of CM fonts. I have old TeTeX-2.0.2, and CM fonts is the default. If I want to use Type1 fonts instead, what do I do? -- William ... William

MPlayer problem... works as root but not as users 6 49 (8/15/2005 1:08:03 AM) comp.os.linux.misc This may be permission issue on Slackware machine. I just compiled MPlayer-1.0pre7. I have ATI Xpert98 (Rage XL), so I'm supposed to do something like mplayer -vo xvidix dvd://1 It works as root. It cor... William

(patch for Bash) GTK+2 + Bash 3 61 (7/11/2005 3:52:11 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I'm very excited to announce shell interface to GTK+2 (2.6.1) for Bash. It read XML syntax describing the widget layout, and returns user selection as shell variable or runs shell command as callback. It's d... William

(patch for Bash) Embedded web server + Bash 2 43 (6/30/2005 8:07:37 PM) comp.unix.shell I added shell interface to Libwebserver-0.6.0, http://stdio.linuxkafe.com/coding/projects/libwebserver-0.6.0-18.zip which is web server library. The official version of Libwebserver is still 0.5.3, and sup... William

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xml parsing #2 9 24 (8/11/2006 5:34:22 PM) comp.text.xml I need to parse a configuration file using xml. How do I retrieve the data between the elements? For example, if my configuration file was organized in the following manner: NY_ONLINE Schedulers Sched_... nmrabinovich (20)

Vim on really old Laptop (Slackware) 10 50 (9/23/2006 8:06:31 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I've got this really *old* Laptop, and for the a long time I wanted to install a tiny Linux distro, and I got me Slakware 3.3, as I could only install it using floppies.... :-) Now the problem is that I didn... oswald (13)

spidering script 6 45 (1/18/2007 5:57:56 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hello.. I'm looking for a script (perl, python, sh...)or program (such as wget) that will help me get a list of ALL the links on a website. For example ./magicscript.pl www.yahoo.com and outputs it to a fil... dwaizer1 (5)

Looking for a rock-solid CSV file parser 13 49 (4/20/2007 4:51:20 AM) comp.unix.programmer I am looking for a strong parser to be used with CSV (Comma Separated Values) files. I would like to have operations such as counting the number of fields in each line. No, I can't simply count commas in ever... ramon (1465)

Memory test program 3 56 (4/26/2007 8:46:41 AM) comp.os.linux.misc I have problems with instable sdram so my Linux doesn't boot and I either need to write a program that does nothing else than tests the entire sdram. No OS, no boot code, no other code at all should be running ... dspfun (158)

How to use shell do simple calculation? 17 60 (6/21/2006 2:42:01 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Dear All, I remember that there is some ways to do simple calculation right at the shell prompt. For example, something like: > echo 3.45 + 2.34 I have tried the command above. But it doesn't work. For suc... xxx28 (51)

Booting from a USB stick? 14 37 (6/22/2006 1:39:02 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I have a 2GB USB stick and would like to boot and run Slackware Linux 10.2 on it. Is this possible? How would I go about doing the install? If Slackware Linux 10.2 is not suitable, is there another distr... me22158 (248)

Printing text, image, text, image, ... 2 47 (6/24/2006 12:01:01 AM) comp.unix.shell I have bunch of text files (about 20 lines) and bunch of image files. Is there a clean way to print text, then image, then text, then image, ...., as though there are in single continuous document? -- William... William

Which linux distro is optimised for Dual Core processors ? 6 76 (6/28/2006 12:46:56 PM) comp.os.linux.hardware Hi, There are a plethora of Linux distros out there. I want one which is optimised for dual core. I am going to get a system which is going to run on Pentium T2300, 1.66 Ghz Dual core having 1GB RAM. Speci... addverma1 (9)

programming: SAX and get content between open and close tag? 12 20 (7/6/2006 12:07:27 PM) comp.text.xml Is it possible to, using the SAX approach, extract the XML content between an opening and closing tag as if it was a continuous string of text? For example, let's say we have the following document: ... rui.maciel (1745)