Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:04:17 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 433 ************************************************** Saturday 30 October 2004 Number 433 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Parrot : John Poltorak 2 Re: Parrot : Henry Sobotka 3 : Christian Hennecke" 4 Re: IMAPD : nps at zeta.org.au 5 Re: Parrot : John Poltorak 6 Re: IMAPD : John Poltorak 7 Re: IMAPD : John Poltorak **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:27:40 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: Parrot Anyone know anything about Parrot? See:- http://www.parrotcode.org It's something to do with the upcoming Perl v6 but I'm not exactly sure what it is for. -- John **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:09:19 -0400 From: Henry Sobotka Subject: Re: Parrot John Poltorak wrote: > > Anyone know anything about Parrot? > > See:- > > http://www.parrotcode.org > > It's something to do with the upcoming Perl v6 but I'm not exactly sure > what it is for. It's a new interpreter being developed for Perl 6 (which is still in the design stage) that will also be capable of handling Perl 5 and other bytecode-compiled languages (e.g. Java, Python, Ruby etc.). With a fair amount of hairpulling I built 0.0.10 with gcc 3.2.1 in March '03, but there were all kinds of problems with the tests that I no longer recall. Biggest headache is that it builds a slew of foo.o and classes/foo.o modules, either of which has to be renamed to keep emxomfar from carping about duplicates. h~ **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:25:50 +0200 (CEST) From: "Christian Hennecke" I'm trying to compile Ghostscript 8.14 with support for XFree86/OS2 4.4 using gcc 3.0.3. I managed to build the required gsos2.exe and gsdll2.dll. See: http://www.os2world.com/os2files/files/gs8.14-xfree86os2.zip I used the standard options. Are there any options for devices, etc. that are worth changing? These versions cannot be used with the standard GSView. They load, but GSView will lockup hard shortly afterwards. There was some trick to avoid this but I can't remember. Can anybody enlighten me? When using Alexander's build of gv.exe, PS files display fine. But it won't load PDFs. Either I get a cryptic message about "invalid file access" before gv.exe even noticed how many pages the PDF has, or it displays the number of pages but the cursor remains in the "clock" state forever. BTW, gv.exe seems to have some problems with XFree86/OS2 4.4 or whatever toolkit it uses. Instead of listing some menu choices (e.g., the filters in the file open dialog) correctly, they are displayed in one row. Looks like a problem with line termination. Can anybody confirm this? Christian Hennecke **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:31:05 +1000 (EST) From: nps at zeta.org.au Subject: Re: IMAPD Quoting John Poltorak : > Has anyone tried setting up IMAPD from the latest PINE (v4.61) release? I'm sure I have but I'm traveling at the moment and won't be able to access my computer for another week or so to check anything. In the mean time: > I've set up IPOP3D and IMAPD to be run from the ported version of INETD > (not IBM's) but can't get a good login. Do you mean that you don't get the login prompt at all, or it says your login is invalid? If the former, check that you have have set up INETDSOCKHANDLE correctly. If the latter, use the pw2*.exe utilities to check your passwd file is set up correctly. > Is there any debug flag I can > use > with either ipop3d or imapd to output error msgs, possibly to syslog to > show what is taking place? I think debugging is turned off in the binary distribution and I'm not sure if running imapd in debug mode is possible anyway (I've only ever run Pine in debug mode). Nicholas S. **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:39:39 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: Parrot On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:09:19AM -0400, Henry Sobotka wrote: > John Poltorak wrote: > > > > Anyone know anything about Parrot? > > > > See:- > > > > http://www.parrotcode.org > > > > It's something to do with the upcoming Perl v6 but I'm not exactly sure > > what it is for. > > It's a new interpreter being developed for Perl 6 (which is still in the > design stage) that will also be capable of handling Perl 5 and other > bytecode-compiled languages (e.g. Java, Python, Ruby etc.). With a fair > amount of hairpulling I built 0.0.10 with gcc 3.2.1 in March '03, but > there were all kinds of problems with the tests that I no longer recall. > Biggest headache is that it builds a slew of foo.o and classes/foo.o > modules, either of which has to be renamed to keep emxomfar from carping > about duplicates. Is Parrot a prerequisite for being able to get Perl 6 built? > h~ -- John **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:50:39 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: IMAPD On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 02:31:05PM +1000, nps at zeta.org.au wrote: > Quoting John Poltorak : > > > Has anyone tried setting up IMAPD from the latest PINE (v4.61) release? > > I'm sure I have but I'm traveling at the moment and won't be able to > access my computer for another week or so to check anything. In the > mean time: > > > I've set up IPOP3D and IMAPD to be run from the ported version of INETD > > (not IBM's) but can't get a good login. > > Do you mean that you don't get the login prompt at all, or it says your > login is invalid? It takes over a minute for the login prompt to appear. I've just discovered this with IMAPD when telneting to port 143. I previously used Netscape to try to login and that may well have timed out. I'm not familiar with manually entering IMAP commands so, I'll have to look that up, but I was unable to login when telneting to port 110. With POP it also takes just as long for the prompt to appear. In contrast when using a different port of IPOP3D, the prompt is immediate. The passing of the socket handle is done directly in that instance. I can see that passing the socket handle via the environment would be a little slower, but I don't understand why it should take a minute. It would be nice to see what is going on in that time. > If the former, check that you have have set up INETDSOCKHANDLE correctly. > If the latter, use the pw2*.exe utilities to check your passwd file is > set up correctly. I used the cram-md5.pwd file, but the login failed. Can't tell why this happened... I'll try creating a new user with pw2add and see how far I get. > > Is there any debug flag I can > > use > > with either ipop3d or imapd to output error msgs, possibly to syslog to > > show what is taking place? > > I think debugging is turned off in the binary distribution and I'm not > sure if running imapd in debug mode is possible anyway (I've only ever > run Pine in debug mode). Is there any provision for logging to syslog? > > Nicholas S. -- John **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:50:39 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: IMAPD On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 02:31:05PM +1000, nps at zeta.org.au wrote: > Quoting John Poltorak : > > > Has anyone tried setting up IMAPD from the latest PINE (v4.61) release? > > I'm sure I have but I'm traveling at the moment and won't be able to > access my computer for another week or so to check anything. In the > mean time: > > > I've set up IPOP3D and IMAPD to be run from the ported version of INETD > > (not IBM's) but can't get a good login. > > Do you mean that you don't get the login prompt at all, or it says your > login is invalid? It takes over a minute for the login prompt to appear. I've just discovered this with IMAPD when telneting to port 143. I previously used Netscape to try to login and that may well have timed out. I'm not familiar with manually entering IMAP commands so, I'll have to look that up, but I was unable to login when telneting to port 110. With POP it also takes just as long for the prompt to appear. In contrast when using a different port of IPOP3D, the prompt is immediate. The passing of the socket handle is done directly in that instance. I can see that passing the socket handle via the environment would be a little slower, but I don't understand why it should take a minute. It would be nice to see what is going on in that time. > If the former, check that you have have set up INETDSOCKHANDLE correctly. > If the latter, use the pw2*.exe utilities to check your passwd file is > set up correctly. I used the cram-md5.pwd file, but the login failed. Can't tell why this happened... I'll try creating a new user with pw2add and see how far I get. > > Is there any debug flag I can > > use > > with either ipop3d or imapd to output error msgs, possibly to syslog to > > show what is taking place? > > I think debugging is turned off in the binary distribution and I'm not > sure if running imapd in debug mode is possible anyway (I've only ever > run Pine in debug mode). Is there any provision for logging to syslog? > > Nicholas S. -- John