From: Digestifier To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Wed, 20 Oct 93 19:13:25 EDT Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #227 Linux-Misc Digest #227, Volume #1 Wed, 20 Oct 93 19:13:25 EDT Contents: WWW Linux man reader (Stephen A. Wood) Re: RFC: Strings from F11/F12 on console (Wolfgang R. Mueller) Re: Linux boxes on the InterNet (Kai Voigt) Re: looking for a voice synthesizer (Kai Voigt) Re: Mail Order Linux Workstations (Thomas Dunbar) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: saw@hallc1.cebaf.gov (Stephen A. Wood) Subject: WWW Linux man reader Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 03:32:44 GMT I hacked up a script I found that can make your linux man pages World Wide Web readable. You just need to add some lines to your /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf files, and put the following script in /usr/local/htfiled (or whereever inetd.conf points.) Then from a WWW browser such as xmosaic, open the URL http://yourhostname:1235/man You do need to have networking up with at least loopback. This way of reading man pages puts in a link wherever a man page refers to another man page, so it is easy to jump around the man pages. I find it more pleasant than using xman. #!/bin/bash #bogus http server functions, directory browser, man page reader, etc. #install a service htfile in /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf as follows: #services:htfile 1235/tcp #inetd.conf:htfile stream tcp nowait www /usr/local/htfiled htfiled #(Make sure you have a www dummy account). makewhatis must have been run so # that /usr/man/whatis exists and man -k works. # # To access, use the URL http://hostname:1235/man # # This file was modified by Stephen Wood (saw@cebaf.gov) from a ksh version for # IRIX 4.0 man pages. It's copyright status is unknown. exec 2>&1 #read get command line read get path #get rid of return character at end of get command ###path=`echo $path|sed s///` path=`echo $path|sed s/.$//` #parse arguments with / delimeter (this was a bad idea) dir="$path" cmd=`expr "$dir//" : '/\([^/]*\)/'` args=`expr "$dir" : '/[^/]*/\(.*\)'` dir=`expr "$dir" : '/[^/]*\(/.*\)'` arg=`expr "$dir//" : '/\([^/]*\)/'` dir=`expr "$dir" : '/[^/]*\(/.*\)'` arg2=`expr "$dir//" : '/\([^/]*\)/'` case $cmd in date) echo "Date and Time now

"`date`"

Wanna see it again? Here it is: "`date`".

" ;; man) if [ "$arg2" = "" ]; then pre="" else pre="../"; fi case "$arg" in "") echo "Linux Manual Pages

Linux Manual Pages

" echo "These are links to the Linux manual pages. You can" echo "look for information in several ways." echo "

" echo "
Keyword Search" echo "
where you can do a full text search for man pages" echo "that contain the keyword you specify." echo "
By section" echo "
where you can browse the names of the man pages" echo "in a section and choose items of interest." echo "
" exit ;; index*) ## I (saw) don't know what this ifs stuff does. It seems not to work without it though. ifs="$IFS" IFS="?$IFS" set $path dir=$1 if [ "$2" = "" ]; then echo "" echo "linux index" echo "

linux

" echo "Type a keyword to search for in the Linux man pages." else echo "Find Linux Manual $2

$2 Keyword search

" echo "
" ### The big substitute a few lines below (and repeated later), attempts to get ### the first command mentioned on the line, since there may be only a man page for ### that command and not the others (since they are all covered in one man page.) ### This seems to work with the set of Linux man pages I have. man -k $2|sed ' s/\&/\&/g s//\>/g s/^/
/ s/[ ]*- /
- / s/()// s|
([A-Za-z4][_A-Za-z0-9+]\{1,\})(.*)[ \t]*\(([1-9n][A-Za-z1-9]*)\)|
\1(\3)<\/A>\2|g s/$//' echo "
" fi exit ;; section*) ifs="$IFS" IFS="?$IFS" set $path dir=$1 if [ "$2" = "" ]; then echo "Man pages, by section, for Linux" echo "

Man pages, by section, for Linux

" echo "Choose a section of the linux manual from the list below:

" echo "Section 1 - Commands

" echo "Section 2 - System calls

" echo "Section 3 - Library calls

" echo "Section 4 - Devices

" echo "Section 5 - File formats

" echo "Section 6 - Games

" echo "Section 7 - Miscellaneous useful information

" echo "Section 8 - System Administration

" echo "Section n - New

" else echo "Linux man pages for section $2

Linux man pages for section $2

" echo "Select this to go back up to the section list for the Linux" echo "man pages, or choose a man page from the list below:

" cat /usr/man/whatis | grep \($2\) |sed ' s/\&/\&/g s//\>/g s/^/

/ s/[ ]*- /
- / s/()// s|
([A-Za-z4][_A-Za-z0-9+]\{1,\})(.*)[ \t]*\(([1-9n][A-Za-z1-9]*)\)|
\1(\3)<\/A>\2|g s/$//' echo "" fi exit ;; esac echo "Linux Manual Page: $arg $arg2

Linux $arg.$arg2

" echo "
"
##This sed replaces <'s, >'s and &'s with the right html directive.  It also
##searches for what appear to be man page references and puts in links to those pages.
        man $arg2 $arg|col -bx|sed '
s/\&/\&/g
s//\>/g
s|([A-Za-z4][_A-Za-z0-9+]\{1,\})[ \t]*\(([1-9n][A-Za-z1-9]*)\)|\1(\2)<\/A>|g
s/$//'
;;

*) echo unrecognized command. $cmd
;;

esac
exit
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From: dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller)
Subject: Re: RFC: Strings from F11/F12 on console
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 11:08:56 GMT

In article <29ua6a$9no@horus.mch.sni.de> Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de (Martin Kraemer) writes:
>I  think we should "invent" four more  strings and assign them to F11, F12,
>F11 and F12.
There should also be different codes possible for
Fi, Fi, Fi, and Fi.
Wolfgang R. Mueller ,
Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.

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From: kai@depeche.toppoint.de (Kai Voigt)
Subject: Re: Linux boxes on the InterNet
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 09:10:26 GMT

In  hpa@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP) writes:

>In article  of comp.os.linux.misc,
>  jwinstea@hmc.edu writes:
>>    I'm curious to find out how many Linux boxes are on the InterNet, and
>>    what their hostnames are.  When I say on the InterNet, I mean
>>    connected 24hrs/day by Ethernet.  My system doesn't count, because I'm
>>    connected with a SLIP line, and it's not up 24hrs/day.  The only real
>>    Linux box I know of on the net is w9bgx.nuars.nwu.edu at Northwestern
>>    University.  Anybody know of others?

>hook.eecs.nwu.edu and ramius.eecs.nwu.edu, also at Northwestern
>University and run by the same friendly sysadm... ;-)

>There is some possibility were are getting more soon, too.  Some other
>people here have expressed a lot of interest after seeing our Linux
>setups.

We will use Linux on our net soon (wait for the Linux prompt after telnetting
to worf.toppoint.de :-) ), now some questions:

- Which distribution did you install and what did you do to make it
  secure?
- How many users does your Linux system have?
- Is the net code stable for professional Internet connection?
- Any other problems/hints?

Cheers,
Kai
-- 
Kai Voigt, Werftstrasse 2, 24148 Kiel, Germany, +49 431 7297514
    "Some people run 'biff' to alert them that they have
    new email.  I run '/bin/true'." -- Tim Limoncelli

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From: kai@depeche.toppoint.de (Kai Voigt)
Subject: Re: looking for a voice synthesizer
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 09:11:50 GMT

In  pawel@cs.UAlberta.CA (Pawel Gburzynski) writes:

>Does anybody know about a voice synthesizer for Linux that would convert
>ASCII texts into voice. It doesn't have to be very smart. I have a GUS card.

some days ago, there was an announce in comp.os.linux.announce, the
program was called speak-1.0, it takes an ASCII-File as standard input
and sends speech to your soundcard...

Kai
-- 
Kai Voigt, Werftstrasse 2, 24148 Kiel, Germany, +49 431 7297514
    "Some people run 'biff' to alert them that they have
    new email.  I run '/bin/true'." -- Tim Limoncelli

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From: tdunbar@vtaix.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar)
Subject: Re: Mail Order Linux Workstations
Date: 20 Oct 1993 15:00:58 GMT


re: fast pentium pc's

but Intel's only releases information necessary to write compiler
optimization for the pentium under a strict non-disclosure agreement.
until that changes there won't be a gcc that can take full advantage 
of the pentium.
 so, currently, it's better to get (wait) on a 486dx3
   

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