Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:04:21 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 450 ************************************************** Tuesday 16 November 2004 Number 450 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Star-1.4.3 : Dave Yeo" 2 Re: Star-1.4.3 : John Poltorak 3 Re: Star-1.4.3 : Dave Yeo" 4 Re: CDRECORD : Dave Yeo" 5 PDF to HTML : John Poltorak 6 Re: Python problem when running Plone : Andrew MacIntyre 7 Re: PDF to HTML : Steve Wendt 8 Re: Python problem when running Plone : John Poltorak 9 Re: Star-1.4.3 : John Poltorak **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:34:31 -0800 From: "Dave Yeo" Subject: Star-1.4.3 If anyones interested I have built and uploaded to Hobbes star-1.4.3. Star is an alternative tar. Should be in incoming then moved to /pub/os2/util/archiver as star-1_4_3.zip Dave **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:13:43 +0000 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: Star-1.4.3 On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:34:31AM -0800, Dave Yeo wrote: > If anyones interested I have built and uploaded to Hobbes star-1.4.3. Star is an alternative tar. > Should be in incoming then moved to /pub/os2/util/archiver as star-1_4_3.zip Excellent! It sure will take some getting used to though... Instinctively I used 'tar zxf file' but star doesn't seem to handle that command format. BTW in your readme.os2 you say there is no ACL support, but in the source package there is a README.ACL so adding it may not be too difficult - it may even already be in there... As far as using is with a tape drive goes, any ideas on which driver it needs? If it used ASPIROUT.SYS would this name appear in star.exe anywhere? Also, any tips on getting it built? > Dave > -- John **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:22:09 -0800 From: "Dave Yeo" Subject: Re: Star-1.4.3 On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:13:43 +0000, John Poltorak wrote: >On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:34:31AM -0800, Dave Yeo wrote: >> If anyones interested I have built and uploaded to Hobbes star-1.4.3. Star is an alternative tar. >> Should be in incoming then moved to /pub/os2/util/archiver as star-1_4_3.zip > >Excellent! > >It sure will take some getting used to though... Instinctively I used >'tar zxf file' but star doesn't seem to handle that command format. Try copying star.exe to gnutar.exe then running gnutar zxf file. Not sure if it'll work. On *nix you'd have various symlinks pointing at star and star would act like whatever name is called. This seems to be better supported in the alpha 1.5 versions which here die during the build with a _link symbol not found. > >BTW in your readme.os2 you say there is no ACL support, but in the source >package there is a README.ACL so adding it may not be too difficult - it >may even already be in there... These are for POSIX.1-2001 style ACLs so only work on some *nixes such as some of the bsds. Soppposedly it is easy to add extra file system support to the 1.5 series, have to look into it a bit more. Be nice to have EA support. > >As far as using is with a tape drive goes, any ideas on which driver it >needs? If it used ASPIROUT.SYS would this name appear in star.exe >anywhere? I have no idea, ASPIROUT does not appear to be in the source tree > >Also, any tips on getting it built? It built fine with smake once I got all the symlinks sorted out. Install is broken though as it copies smake etc instead of smake.exe etc. Dave **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:24:29 -0800 From: "Dave Yeo" Subject: Re: CDRECORD On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:24:07 +0000, John Poltorak wrote: > >If CDRECORD can be built on OS/2 straight from the original distributed >source, has anyone managed to build it successfully? > >I'd like to include it in UX2BS if possible. I managed to build CDRECORD. Needed to remove a -Zexe from the OS2-rules and had to screw around a bit to get all the symlinks copied correctly. Using smake, gnu make seems to not work though the porter says that is what he used. Dave **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:52:55 +0000 From: John Poltorak Subject: PDF to HTML Is there a utility for converting a PDF to HTML pages? -- John **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:26:46 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre Subject: Re: Python problem when running Plone On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, John Poltorak wrote: > Can anyone shed any light on what is going wrong here? I probably should up the default stack allocation - in the absence of clear developer guidelines about this, I've set it large enough to get through the full regression test suite + a bit (result: 1.5MB). You can change this easily in the Makefile: there's a STACKSIZE directive in the %.def rule (which creates a DEF file for linking the .exe); just change the value (4MB: 4194304, 8MB: 8388608). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andymac at bullseye.apana.org.au (pref) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac at pcug.org.au (alt) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Web: http://www.andymac.org/ | Australia **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:40:50 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Wendt Subject: Re: PDF to HTML On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, John Poltorak wrote: > Is there a utility for converting a PDF to HTML pages? http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/convert/pdftohtml_0_22b.zip **= Email 8 ==========================** Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:58:09 +0000 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: Python problem when running Plone On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:26:46AM +1100, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, John Poltorak wrote: > > > Can anyone shed any light on what is going wrong here? > > I probably should up the default stack allocation - in the absence of > clear developer guidelines about this, I've set it large enough to get > through the full regression test suite + a bit (result: 1.5MB). > > You can change this easily in the Makefile: there's a STACKSIZE directive > in the %.def rule (which creates a DEF file for linking the .exe); just > change the value (4MB: 4194304, 8MB: 8388608). Can I achieve the same result using:- ? emxstack -s 8389 python.exe If so, I tried this and still got a problem with insufficient stack space. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." > E-mail: andymac at bullseye.apana.org.au (pref) | Snail: PO Box 370 > andymac at pcug.org.au (alt) | Belconnen ACT 2616 > Web: http://www.andymac.org/ | Australia -- John **= Email 9 ==========================** Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:26:56 +0000 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: Star-1.4.3 On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 12:22:09PM -0800, Dave Yeo wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:13:43 +0000, John Poltorak wrote: > > >On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:34:31AM -0800, Dave Yeo wrote: > >It sure will take some getting used to though... Instinctively I used > >'tar zxf file' but star doesn't seem to handle that command format. > > Try copying star.exe to gnutar.exe then running gnutar zxf file. Not > sure if it'll work. I had copied it as tar, however I've subsequently found that it didn't work because I'd included a drive letter. When you do that you get:- Remote tape support not present. > >BTW in your readme.os2 you say there is no ACL support, but in the source > >package there is a README.ACL so adding it may not be too difficult - it > >may even already be in there... > > These are for POSIX.1-2001 style ACLs so only work on some *nixes such > as some of the bsds. Soppposedly it is easy to add extra file system > support to the 1.5 series, have to look into it a bit more. Be nice to > have EA support. Yes it would be great to keep all the OS/2 functionality that is in GTAK. > >As far as using is with a tape drive goes, any ideas on which driver it > >needs? If it used ASPIROUT.SYS would this name appear in star.exe > >anywhere? > > I have no idea, ASPIROUT does not appear to be in the source tree I wonder how it expects to be able to communicate with a tape device... > >Also, any tips on getting it built? > > It built fine with smake once I got all the symlinks sorted out. > Install is broken though as it copies smake etc instead of smake.exe > etc. Thanks I'll give it another go. > Dave -- John