From: UnixOS2 Archive To: "UnixOS2 Archive" Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 04:35:17 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 298 ************************************************** Saturday 10 August 2002 Number 298 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Mutt status : Patrick Ash 2 Re: Mutt 1.4 : John Poltorak 3 Building GNU Hello with external gettext : John Poltorak 4 Text mode viewer for PDFs : John Poltorak **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:26:56 +0000 From: Patrick Ash Subject: Mutt status John, I think that I found the problem writing temp files, but in so doing, I have found a couple of other items that need fixing as well. Initially, most of the old code I looked at seemed to just ifdef around unix features that were not supported in Os/2. Now, however, I have found a couple where the procedure was rewritten for OS/2, so I will look at all of the code before I try to build another test version. I have also been working on OpenSSL. there were several security vulnerabilities discovered in OpenSSL 0.9.6 recently, and 3 new versions have been released since July 30. http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20020730.txt Since I use OpenSSL in mutt, I have built and tested the latest version to be sure it works in any apps I have that use SSL. So far, so good. Pat -- Patrick Ash patash at comcast.net This OS/2 system uptime is 1 day, 01:10 hours and 30 seconds **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:22:33 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: Mutt 1.4 On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 01:18:12AM +0000, Patrick Ash wrote: > On Thu, 08 Aug 2002 20:01:41 +0100, John Poltorak wrote: > > > > >One of the OS/2 specific changes I find useful is the use of 20*^H > >seperators in a mailbox sometimes referred to as MMDF formatted mailboxes. > >I don't know where they originated but UUPC/2 and elm could handle them > >and I have mailboxes going back many years in this format so it would be > >handy to be able to read them. > > According to the manual.txt (found in /doc/mutt) this format is one > of the formats that mutt supports. I do not beleive that it is a > feature specific to the OS/2 version. From the manual > > > Mutt supports reading and writing of four different mailbox > formats: > mbox, MMDF, MH and Maildir. The mailbox type is autodetected, so > there is no need to use a flag for different mailbox types. When > creating new mailboxes, Mutt uses the default specified with the > ``$mbox_type'' variable. > MMDF is normally 4*^H on Unix systems AFAIUI. 20*^H seems to be peculiar to OS/2. I don't know why or where it originated. > >I can't seem t read any msgs, I get an error saying:- > > > >Could not create temporary file! > > > >when I select a msg from the index. I do have %TMP% defined and there is > >plenty of free space, so I don't know why I get this error. > > > >This mutt uses a hard code mailpath of c:/mptn/etc/mail which doesn't > >exist here. %ETC% is defined as c:\etc and mailboxes are in c:\var\mail. > > > > I built another version with the mailpath variable set to /var/mail. > The configure script will not complete if this variable is empty, so > it has to be set to something. Perhaps it can be changed in .muttrc. > > I am not sure what is the cause of the error creating temporary > files. There are 4-5 different modules where this could occur, and I > will have to look at the code in each to see what is the cause. This > might take a day or 2. Hopefully less, but one never knows. There's no hurry, but I'll give it a test as soon as you have something available, although with the temporary file error, the only thing I can do is scroll through an index of msgs, so I'm not really doing much of a test. Maybe it's something in my environment causing the problem... Has anyone else tried this new port of MUTT? > Pat > > -- > Patrick Ash > patash at comcast.net > > This OS/2 system uptime is 7 days, 16:02 hours and 30 seconds > -- John **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 19:00:48 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: Building GNU Hello with external gettext I tried building GNU Hello with an external gettext, but it didn't seem to pick it. Configure produces the following results:- checking for msgfmt... no checking for gmsgfmt... : checking for xgettext... no How can I tell why I get these results? I do have msgfmt and xgettext on the path. Is there any way to run these tests individually? -- John **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 19:30:09 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: Text mode viewer for PDFs Is there such a thing as a text mode viewer for PDFs? Lynx, perhaps... -- John