Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN Norman: isql guide

2011-07-18 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 18/07/11 14:37, Dmitry Yemanov wrote: SHOW commands operate on a separate transaction from user statements. They run as READ COMMITTED background statements and acknowledge all metadata changes immediately. Thanks. I've updated the isql manual with these details. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman

Re: [Firebird-docs] XML Mind new version - Warnings!

2011-09-26 Thread Norman Dunbar
On 26/09/11 03:16, Paul Vinkenoog wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:10:26 +0200, Norman Dunbar wrote: Eh? ;-) ... Solved! Now is that quick or what? :-) Extremely - thanks! Actually, since I originally posted that, I've been using XML Mind version 4.3.0_01 which is happy to handle xincludes

Re: [Firebird-docs] Update of build system

2011-09-27 Thread Norman Dunbar
suspect lots of stuff whizzing into and out of memory - seeing as how ant is Java and xml etc. Most likely delays are in writing the thousands or warnings to the console I expect! ;-) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane

[Firebird-docs] Checking out the B_Release branch

2011-10-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
into the B_Release branch. * Copy any updated manuals' XML files into the b_release location - /SourceCode/cvs/firebird/b_release/manual/src/docs/firebirddocs/ in my case. * Commit these documents back to cvs in the usual manner. HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered

Re: [Firebird-docs] firebirdintro.xml

2011-10-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Paul, Are there any objections to sending firebirdintro.xml to the attic? It's a stub, written ages ago by David Jencks and it's not likely that we are ever going to use it. Not from me. As far as I can see, it's never used. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd

Re: [Firebird-docs] firebirddocs.xml and subtree updated

2011-10-13 Thread Norman Dunbar
of the manual tree, it's probably a good idea to do a cvs update. Consider it about to be done. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Firebird-docs] Upload server problems?

2012-10-31 Thread Norman Dunbar
. The warnings say one things the connection says another - and the end result is the same, I don't get a connection. If I ping the server I get 78.47.172.252 - so the warnings appear to be a pile of poo! I'll keep investigating Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd

Re: [Firebird-docs] Upload server problems?

2012-10-31 Thread Norman Dunbar
with Sergey even as I type. Hopefully, all will be well soon. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Firebird-docs] Error while building PDF

2017-05-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
Sorry, auto correct trashed my reply! OpenJDK was no use either. Cheers, Norm. On 12 May 2017 09:40:09 BST, Norman Dunbar <nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk> wrote: >Morning Martin, > >I think that the IcedTea java environment is not suitable for fop to >create pdfs. I've got a recollec

Re: [Firebird-docs] Error while building PDF

2017-05-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning Martin, I think that the IcedTea java environment is not suitable for fop to create pdfs. I've got a recollection that this has bugged me in the past. I'm pretty sure you need Sun/Oracle jave. Opened was no use either, at least according to a post of mine from 2011 (Update of Build

Re: [Firebird-docs] Test repository CVS to git migration

2017-10-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
is Open Source, (CC Attribution Non-Commercial Share-alike 3.0 Unported Licence) and you are encouraged to fix errors and create pull requests to get the corrections (and your name!) in the next edition. ;-) HTH Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address

Re: [Firebird-docs] Test repository CVS to git migration

2017-10-17 Thread Norman Dunbar
://git-scm.com/book/en/v2 address. :-) I already have it from the Springer address too, so I have both versions. Thanks again. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7LG Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

2017-10-09 Thread Norman Dunbar
I agree with the git option too. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.-- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org!

Re: [Firebird-docs] Test repository CVS to git migration

2017-10-18 Thread Norman Dunbar
ition, get a fresh git clone afterwards and work only from that. Am I right? In a word, yes. Provided that you configure the Git client before checking out and definitely before checking in. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West

Re: [Firebird-docs] Test repository CVS to git migration

2017-10-18 Thread Norman Dunbar
settings at http://adaptivepatchwork.com/2012/03/01/mind-the-end-of-your-line/. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7LG Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Firebird-docs] SourceForge CVS to GitHub migration done

2017-11-12 Thread Norman Dunbar
Thanks for all the hard work on the migration Mark - it is appreciated. Would having issues enabled be better for people to log bugs in the docs perhaps? Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my

Re: [Firebird-docs] Test repository CVS to git migration

2017-11-04 Thread Norman Dunbar
imple to have a fork and keep it up to date with a remote pointing at the original repository, and a "git pull" from that remote. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28

Re: [Firebird-docs] Experimenting with asciidoc / asciidoctor

2018-06-22 Thread Norman Dunbar
Issue 921 opened on github. (Asciidoctor-pdf) Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity and any "auto corrections" that are just wrong!-- Check out the vibrant tech community

Re: [Firebird-docs] Can contribute

2018-04-24 Thread Norman Dunbar
I thought the VPN was ancient history? Am I wrong? I remember writing the docs for how to use it, and then it got changed so that we simply provide an ssh public key (but not dsa!) and that gives us access to sftp our documents directly to the web site. I need to write a new set of "how to

Re: [Firebird-docs] Request for testing gradle build to replace ant build

2020-03-05 Thread Norman Dunbar
pain! (Ask me how I know!) Good luck and have fun with asciidoctor. (My current book is being written in Lyx!) Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: 27a Lidget Hill Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7LG Company Number: 05132767

Re: [Firebird-docs] doc building failure

2020-01-11 Thread Norman Dunbar
My build system is Oracle Java 8 as it's the most recent version that works. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.___ Firebird-docs mailing list Firebird-docs@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Firebird-docs] doc building failure

2020-01-07 Thread Norman Dunbar
Rotteveel wrote: >On 2020-01-06 17:21, Norman Dunbar wrote: >> And, if you have got the proper libraries and tools installed, you >> need to use an Oracle version of Java with a version 8 or lower, or >it >> will not build with Open JDK, nor will it build with Java 9 and >&

Re: [Firebird-docs] Do we need/want chunked HTML?

2020-03-08 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Mark, I actually prefer chunky html, sorry. It loads quicker over single files. True, I can't search the whole file, but if I needed that I'd use the pdf. Having said that, I'm happy to lose the chunky version, if necessary. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail.

Re: [Firebird-docs] Example of new documentation

2020-05-18 Thread Norman Dunbar
Morning All, Hopefully we are all staying safe. I'm with Paul, the second version is much better. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.___ Firebird-docs mailing list Firebird-docs@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Firebird-docs] First 'new' documents online

2020-05-26 Thread Norman Dunbar
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Re: [Firebird-docs] Style of rendering parameters

2020-05-30 Thread Norman Dunbar
I prefer the definition list. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.___ Firebird-docs mailing list Firebird-docs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-docs

Re: [Firebird-docs] gstat OST - OIT and Sweep

2020-07-31 Thread Norman Dunbar
Oh dear, I wrote that! Originally, if I remember correctly, I might have mentioned that the sweep would be started when OAT - OIT was greater than the sweep interval. This was s I had seen in books, online, etc. Vlad, complained to me that I had written wrongly, and that the sweep would be

Re: [Firebird-docs] Conversion of release notes

2020-08-02 Thread Norman Dunbar
Looks excellent from where I'm sitting. Thanks. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.___ Firebird-docs mailing list Firebird-docs@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Firebird-docs] Firebird 2.5 Language Reference migration preview

2020-06-03 Thread Norman Dunbar
I favour option 1 then option 2 Mark. Cheers, Norm. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.___ Firebird-docs mailing list Firebird-docs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-docs

Re: [Firebird-docs] Experimental chunked output

2021-09-29 Thread Norman Dunbar
I like it. The styling looks good to my eye. The quick TOC pop-up (pop-down) is a nice touch. It's readable on my phone in portrait and landscape mode which is nice. It's a little tiny bit too big though and I have to adjust the size slightly. But that's not a huge problem. Cheers, Norm. --