Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #120
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Date:     Tue, 17 May 94 02:13:14 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #120, Volume #2                Tue, 17 May 94 02:13:14 EDT

Contents:
  Re: Term 115 (beta) is out. (Trae Bailey)
  Re: Changing keys for changing VC (Andries Brouwer)
  Re: accentuated characters (diacritics) (Andries Brouwer)
  Re: Raytracing and Linux (Ben Adams)
  Re: Interest in a weekly Linux news? (lilo)
  Re: Streets named after programming languages (Robin DeBled)

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From: trae@C2D2E2.wes.army.mil (Trae Bailey)
Subject: Re: Term 115 (beta) is out.
Date: 16 May 1994 18:35:51 GMT


Not much luck on an SGI either.  If anyone has it compiled for an
SGI, please post your changes.

Thanks,

Trae Bailey
Programmer/Analyst
Nichols Research Corporation
Email: trae@c2d2e2.wes.army.mil


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From: aeb@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer)
Subject: Re: Changing keys for changing VC
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 20:20:44 GMT

pi92ae%@pt.hk-r.se (Andy) writes:

>How easy would it be to change keycombination for switching VC's, I am tired of trying 
>to do CTRL-ALT-F[n] in a normal VC, and ALT-F[n] in dosemu, and xwindows.

Very easy: you assign the desired key combination using with loadkeys.

>Isn't it time to standardize the console switching, e.g. to ctrl-alt-function key or 
>something the like. It would ease up life quite a bit.  

I already added Ctrl-Alt-Fn to the default keymap, so if you have the most
recent kbd (kbd-0.87.tar.gz) then just loading the defaults (with "loadkeys -d")
will get you what you want.

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From: aeb@cwi.nl (Andries Brouwer)
Subject: Re: accentuated characters (diacritics)
Date: Mon, 16 May 1994 20:33:27 GMT

martin@CAM.ORG (Martin Carmichael) writes:

>Does linux support accentuated characters?

Yes, in the sense that the default character set is Latin-1 (iso 8859-1).

The support could be better, in that the GNU people have not discovered
setlocale() yet, and each program requires its own flags or environment
variables or init file to convince it to use 8 bits.
This means that working is painful in the beginning, but after figuring
out how to do everything, it all works.


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From: bra@bentek.mese.com (Ben Adams)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Raytracing and Linux
Date: Fri, 13 May 94 22:53:20 EDT

bkoen@crl.com (Bryan Koen) writes:

> Are there any raytracing packages avilable for Linux or X?

Try POV-Ray 2.0.  It can be found on Compu$erve, or I will email
the source to who ever wants it...

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From: lilo@slip-4-15 (lilo)
Subject: Re: Interest in a weekly Linux news?
Date: 14 May 1994 05:03:56 GMT

On 12 May 94 13:34:30 GMT, Jeff Tranter (tranter@Software.Mitel.COM) wrote:

> A while back, Lars Wirzenius and later Denise Tree produced a weekly
> report on Linux happenings called "Linux News"; it was posted to the
> net. I found this very useful, but it stopped sometime around June.

> Is there any interest in reviving Linux News or have Linux Journal and
> c.o.la. made it obsolete?

I'd love to see it!  I'd love to be able to read something that would keep
me up on what was going on with the various developers; we mostly don't seem
to see that sort of thing anywhere.

On the other hand, I'm sure Lars and/or Denise have plenty of things to fill
up their time....so I guess we'll have to see what happens.... 8)



lilo

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From: rdebled@uoguelph.ca (Robin DeBled)
Crossposted-To: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Streets named after programming languages
Date: 16 May 1994 21:25:56 GMT

Colin Simpson (cms@dcs.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
:: Extending this conversation a bit further to streets named
:: after any field of computing. 

:: Is there in Silicon Valley a street called `Disk Drive' ? 

:: Someone once told me this but it sounds bogus to me (But I'll
:: be very happy to be proved wrong).

  This is actually true.  I got a letter from a company located on Disk 
Drive.  I thought it was sorta neat.  And of course Microsoft is located 
at 1 Microsoft Way.

  R.


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