Hi, > > Several funny or at least interesting examples of translators are given in > > most Hurd presentations (such as Marcus' talk and Wolfgang's HHG). Among > > them are the fortune translator and also more useful translators such as a > > tar+gzip/bzip2 translator which would allow to `mount' an archive. > > I never seen something about those presentation, do you've got a link?
Marcus Brinkmann's talk is available on http://hurd.gnu.org and the (unofficial) Hurd Hacking Guide can be found at http://www.8ung.at/shell/hhg.html . BTW, I think this guide is really a good idea; however, it lacks an example for libnetfs. ;) Any idea of which translator in the Hurd source tree would be a good one to look at to get a feel of libnetfs? > I once wrote a fortune translator, the code is really ugly and it can use > only one cookie database. It isn't released yet. The translator can be set > with: > > settrans -ac cookie ./fortunet ./startrek > > If someone is really interested I am willing to make the code more readable > and upload it somewhere :). I think it would be nice if we could have some kind of a central repository where we could put all the translators that have been written so far, including the fortune translator of course. ;) I believe there is not yet a huge number of Hurd users and translator writers so having such a repository could be both useful for Hurd users and motivating for those who haven't had a chance yet to write a translator or who are looking for concrete example of what a translator could bring to the end-user. Ludovic. _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
