Re: [PLUG] Help with email scripts...

On Sun, 23 Jun 2019, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: I am having trouble using grep to grab subject lines from my spam folder on eskimo. Michael, Attachments are ripped off messages to this mail list. Regardless, have you considered using awk rather than grep? You can set /^Subject:/ as

Re: [PLUG] whitelisting a dkim mismatch

On Sun, 9 Jun 2019, Keith Lofstrom wrote: What files do I tweak on my incoming server to make wccls.org (and all spammers pretending to be wccls) pass through postfix with dkim-filter? Keith, Wietse and other postfix gurus likely have an answer for you on the postfix mail list. There's also

Re: [PLUG] Wireless access point failing?

On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, Russell Senior wrote: https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Belkin_F9K1104 The Ubisoft SoC means it probably won't ever be supported by OpenWrt. Your problem could have about 117 different causes, ... Thanks for looking, Russell. Are there availble vertical WAPs supporting OpenWRT?

Re: [PLUG] Nokia 6.1 Plus turns off quickly

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, wes wrote: I'm not Ben but I may be able to offer some small insight. The feature that controls this is called "screen lock" (or "auto lock" on some devices). Searching up this term yielded this result:

Re: [PLUG] Nokia 6.1 Plus turns off quickly [RESOLVED]

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, Ali Corbin wrote: Or possibly: Settings > Display > Advanced > Sleep Ali, Aha! I didn't look at the Display menu. Yes, the sleep option is set to 30 seconds by default. I bumped that up to 2 minutes and now know how to change it. I was thining the phone was turning off,

Re: [PLUG] Nokia 6.1 Plus turns off quickly

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, Galen Seitz wrote: With my phone (a Motorola G5+), adaptive brightness quickly ramps up the brightness when outdoors, so in that case it is actually useful. The problem I have is in low light conditions, where the phone tends to reduce the brightness too much, at least for

Re: [PLUG] Nokia 6.1 Plus turns off quickly

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: Also, turn off adaptive brightness. It sucks. Ben, Huh! I've not noticed whether it applied itself. My previous mobile phones were all but unreadable in direct sunlight. I've not yet tried the Nokia in full daylight so I've no idea how useful it is

[PLUG] An obscure (at least to me) useful tool

Those of you who are professional system/network admins probably know about the little tool, 'nl,' that numbers lines in text files . For non-professionals like me it's a great find as I work regularly with text files and it solved a problem more quickly than by

Re: [PLUG] An obscure (at least to me) useful tool

On Wed, 22 May 2019, Russell Senior wrote: I've used the -n option to cat recently to get line numbers. E.g.: cat -n README.txt Russell, That's another new one for me. What nl allows is setting the starting number (among other options) which was needed in my case. The source files were

[PLUG] LibreOffice consumed CPU cycles

I have libreoffice-6.2.3 installed and this morning saw disturbing behavior that I've not before seen with this application: it was consuming 99.7-100.0% of the CPU and raising the processor's temperature near 80C while sitting idle. It was opened to print a very small spreadsheet (about 20 rows

Re: [PLUG] An obscure (at least to me) useful tool

On Thu, 23 May 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: Now, the suggestion, all people new to "unix" in any since of that word should read the AT V7 manual sections 1 and 8, those commands are pretty much still here, and that set of options is also pretty much every place. You may find some real nuggets

Re: [PLUG] An obscure (at least to me) useful tool

On Thu, 23 May 2019, bro...@netgate.net wrote: And here are a couple of more goods ways of finding a line number using sed or grep and a pattern: Finding and inserting are two different operations. Regardless, one of the features of linux (and end-user applications) is that almost always

Re: [PLUG] distro suggestions please

On Thu, 9 May 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: Slackware still has Seamonkey and I don't think it will be removed anytime soon. If Pat tries to get rid of it people will probably riot and start flipping cars. Or someone will maintain it on SBo. Rich ___

Re: [PLUG] Local (PDX) data recovery from a Dell SSD

On Tue, 21 May 2019, Richard England wrote: At this time I only have the information passed on to me regarding what he was told in Colombo. I can certainly suggest that he check in at the clinic, but since this is a probably a Windows laptop I wasn't certain if the that was appropriate. 'Twas

Re: [PLUG] Local (PDX) data recovery from a Dell SSD

On Mon, 20 May 2019, Richard England wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for a data recovery service or individual that he can have investigate this? He's expecting to have to pay for it if this affects your suggestion. Richard, Is he certain that the problem is a failed hard drive? If

Re: [PLUG] Minimal Distribution for Atom 550 Processor

On Mon, 20 May 2019, Michael Barnes wrote: In the meantime, trying to decide on what distribution I want to load. I appreciate your suggestions. Michael, I had a small unit with an Atom processor and ran Slackware on it. Whether this distribution is one you'd be comfortable using is up to

Re: [PLUG] Gawk script not working as intended [RESOLVED]

On Mon, 20 May 2019, Robert Citek wrote: This is what I am getting: $ cat plug.awk #!/usr/bin/awk BEGIN { FS=OFS="," } { if ( $5 ~ /'Legal Contact'/ ) # double quotes also fail Is that what you are looking for? Robert, Ah, ha! I did not realize that the tilde needed a following space,

Re: [PLUG] Gawk script not working as intended [RESOLVED]

On Mon, 20 May 2019, Reid wrote: It shouldn't... does it work differently for you after you add the space? Reid, It did with the test file, but with the 1084-line data file it didn't. I don't see why it works on some line pairs but not all. With such a simple script there should be no

[PLUG] Gawk script not working as intended

I have a long CSV file with two rows for each entity and I want to print only the first row to the output file. It's so simple that despite my research in using awk I'm not seeing my error. Gawk script: #!/usr/bin/gawk BEGIN { FS=OFS="," } { if ($5 ~/'Legal Contact'/) # double quotes also fail

Re: [PLUG] Gawk script not working as intended

On Mon, 20 May 2019, Reid wrote: Works on my machine. Maybe you've got a Unicode single-quote? Reid, No, but I needed a space following the tilde (while I see that you didn't need one). When I added the space the script worked as intended. Thanks, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Firefox add-ons dropped, can't re-install

On Mon, 6 May 2019, King Beowulf wrote: Hot off the presses for Slackware-14.2 (stable): Mon May 6 01:29:24 UTC 2019 patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-60.6.2esr-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update addresses the issue of add-ons failing to load. For more information, see:

Re: [PLUG] Firefox add-ons dropped, can't re-install

On Sun, 5 May 2019, King Beowulf wrote: ... you can get the add-ons/extensions back via about:config search for 'xpinstall.signatures.required' right-click and toggle to "False" Your add-ons will now be re-enabled with a warning message. Ed, Thank you very much. That toggle restored the

Re: [PLUG] Mouse connection question

On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: What exactly is motivating you to go through this ordeal instead of just using USB for your new trackball/trackthing? The desktop has no USB ports on the rear and two in front. I use those for flash drives and other devices. The DIN-6 socket in the rear

Re: [PLUG] Mouse connection question [FIXED]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Perhaps someone on the xfce mail list has a solution for that. So far only one response, "Well, it just works for me on Fedora." So? No help on the xfce mail list, but futzing (setting the driver to the Kensington one and having enabled i

Re: [PLUG] Mouse connection question

On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Fred James wrote: Guessing ... but I did have this experience ... not all converters are "active".  That means that not all converters will act properly when connecting a USB mouse, or keyboard, to a legacy mouse, or keyboard, port on an older computer.  The USB port

[PLUG] Mouse connection question

My old wireless Logitech trackball died of old age after the scroll wheel stopped working and (a few days ago) the middle button stopped working (which was my xfig end-line problem) and it would not connect to the receiver after a battery transplant. So, time to get a new one. Bought a

Re: [PLUG] GIMP: lost toolbox and layer manager on startup [FIXED]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2019, King Beowulf wrote: in the main Gimp screen (with drop downs File Edit..etc), click on the "Windows" drop down. There you will see Recently Closed Docks > Dockable Dialogs > Hi Ed, Nothing recently closed. You can also recreate them fairly easily. For example, Tools -

Re: [PLUG] Mouse connection question

On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Fred James wrote: My next guess/suggestion would involve looking at or changing the settings for the device in MCC -> Hardware -> Setup Pointer Device.  But perhaps you have done that already?  I cannot imagine that the new device is not supported, but I suppose that is

Re: [PLUG] Mouse connection question

On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: More thoughts welcome, Web searches for issues of this trackball with xfce4 fail to find anything but how-tos for the trackball and a few left-button issues. Perhaps asking on linuxquestions would be appropriate after I try the xfce mail list. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Orphaned inodes

On Wed, 3 Jul 2019, Frank Filz wrote: Other than a crash or a code bug, I can't think of any reason. Frank, Me, neither. e2fsck does the journal replay after a crash, so it's reporting orphaned inodes may just be part of journal replay. Yes, and this is why I asked the question. Thanks

Re: [PLUG] Open Source Help Desk software

On Wed, 3 Jul 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Trac <https://trac.edgewall.org/>. I've not used it (other than entering GRASS bug reports) but I know it has wide acceptance and use. And, ... it runs on a web server so if your phone or pad has a browser and access to the 'Net you can

[PLUG] GIMP: lost toolbox and layer manager on startup

I managed to close GIMP and lose the toolbox and layer manager displaying when it starts. Looking in ~/.gimp/ I don't see where I can tell the application to load these two normal defaults when loading. A pointer to what to remove or modify is needed. Regards, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Open Source Help Desk software

On Wed, 3 Jul 2019, Chuck Hast wrote: The company owner is getting tired of a help desk app that we are using in company. I am trying to find an open source solution. Chuck, Trac . I've not used it (other than entering GRASS bug reports) but I know it has wide

Re: [PLUG] Issue on laptop w/trackpad disabled

On Thu, 4 Jul 2019, Denis Heidtmann wrote: Any suggestions for a recovery should I have a failure? Denis, Buy a small wired mouse. They come with thin cords on a spring-loaded reel. Pull out as much as you need. When finished pull slightly to release the lock and let the spring rewind the

Re: [PLUG] Mouse connection question [FIXED]

On Fri, 5 Jul 2019, Galen Seitz wrote: I didn't see what motherboard you are using, but it's possible that you have additional USB ports that aren't cabled out. Subject to mechanical considerations, you might be able to add some USB ports to the back of your machine. Galen, It would require

[PLUG] Configuring Kensington Orbit Scroll Ring Trackball buttons

I've discovered there is no working 'middle' button to paste highlighted text with my new Kensington Orbit trackball with scroll ring. The left button highlights text and the ring scrolls scrollable pages up and down. I've no idea what the right button does as I've not tried using it. But, when I

Re: [PLUG] PDF/LaTeX guru here? [RESOLVED]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: This makes sense - by default resize preserves aspect ratio. So, if you give new size this way (XxY), it always picks the biggest X or Y for the original aspect ratio and ignores the other one. If you want the output to be always equal to X. You should

Re: [PLUG] PDF/LaTeX guru here?

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Michael Barnes wrote: Autoresponders are the work of the devil and should be avoided at all costs. I think of them as the written equivalent of call waiting. When I'm on the phone with someone another incoming call goes to voice mail. There's nothing so urgent I need to

Re: [PLUG] PDF/LaTeX guru here?

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, wes wrote: It just means that someone subscribed to the list and then set up an auto-responder. It happens. Wes, Oh. Okay. Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] PDF/LaTeX guru here? [RESOLVED]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Trying to shrink large size pdf page to letter size sometimes fails, telling me, "The call to 'pdflatex' resulted in an error." I use the --no-tidy error to produce an log file, but it makes no sense to me. The landscape oriented file is

[PLUG] Orphaned inodes

What happens to cause inodes to become orphaned? I assume the parents aren't deported from the system ... or are they? Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] web search post filtering

On Wed, 10 Jul 2019, bro...@netgate.net wrote: It's not the solution you're seeking (I know of no such plugin) but maybe a switch to duckduckgo instead of Google or Bing might make things a little better. They don't collect or use tracking data to mung your search results with crap.

Re: [PLUG] Open Source Help Desk software

On Wed, 3 Jul 2019, wes wrote: I like RT. https://bestpractical.com/request-tracker Might be a little overkill for a small team, but worth a look. Well, as long as we're giving Chuck things to do on the holiday these web sites might be worth a look:

[PLUG] Xfig question

I finally have xfig grokked and am using it to create vector line drawings. The instructions and an ancient tips PDF file tell me to start a line I position the cursor and press button 1 (the left button) and to stop a line I press button 2 (the right button). However, quite often clicking button

[PLUG] Resizing images with imagemagick

I have several hundred .jpg images that are all saved at the camera's maximum resolution. I can use imagemagick's convert tool with the -resize option because I want the reduced images to be 768px high x 576px wide. However, without looking at each image in The GIMP I've no way of knowing which

Re: [PLUG] Evince and Oregon Form 40?

On Mon, 8 Apr 2019, Russell Senior wrote: So, I'm just getting around to doing my Oregon Taxes and the fillable form 40 is not displaying or printing correctly in Evince ... Clues please! Russell, I don't use evince or do my own taxes (my accountant does both business and personal taxes),

Re: [PLUG] Resizing images with imagemagick

On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, Ali Corbin wrote: It'll take human intervention, to look at each individual image and decide whether to rotate it. Ali, This I knew. I usually use the GIMP for this manipulation and am glad to learn that ... Happily, it's not too onerous to do this in imagemagick,

Re: [PLUG] Resizing images with imagemagick

On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, Paul Mullen wrote: Many (most?) digital cameras include an "orientation" tag in the collection of EXIF metadata embedded in the image file. The tag value indicates which way the camera was rotated during exposure (and hence which direction the resulting image should be

Re: [PLUG] Resizing images with imagemagick [RESOLVED]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: I do this following way: 768px x 576px = 442368px To change all images in a directory to this resolution regardless of orientation: mogrify -resize @442368 *.jpg Hope it helps. Tomas, Yes, it does. I was not successful using a for loop

Re: [PLUG] Resizing images with imagemagick

On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: BTW, the identify tool does this. It's part of IM as are a number of other image processing commands. Yep. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] PDF/LaTeX guru here? [RESOLVED]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: What was your mogrify command line when you expected 6xx, but got 5xx? Tomas, mogrify -resize 612x792 .pdf When I ran pdfinfo on the changed file it showed the size as 512 x 792. Regards, Rich ___ PLUG

Re: [PLUG] Xfig question

On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, Galen Seitz wrote: Regarding Tcl/Tk applications, I don't know about Tk usage, but Tcl is heavily used in electronic design applications. For better or worse, tools used for FPGA and ASIC design use Tcl scripts to drive the build process. They may use Eclipse for the GUI,

[PLUG] Using The GIMP to copy line drawings

I have a need to make copies of line drawings and want to use the originals as background and trace the lines using a new GIMP layer. The new layer is to be saved as a new file without the original "background". Has anyone done this? Is there a better tool? I'll see if there's a PSTricks approach

Re: [PLUG] Using The GIMP to copy line drawings

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Ken Stephens wrote: Do your tracings on the new layer. Then turn off the background layer. Select->All, Edit->Copy Visible, File->Create->From Clipboard. You will have a new gimp image you can do with it as you may. Ken, I thought that there was a way to keep only new

Re: [PLUG] Orphaned inodes

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Frank Filz wrote: Hmm, the crash must be causing open but unlinked inodes to be lost, Frank, I assume this is the case. When the system reboots (and it's been >200 days) the kernel forces a filesystem check (it's ext3 on this host). The reason I asked is curiosity what,

Re: [PLUG] Using The GIMP to copy line drawings

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, a...@clueserver.org wrote: Are you sure you don't want to use something like Inkscape and create vector images instead? Alan, Perhaps. That's why I'm going to use PSTricks for the job, but LyX/LaTeX converts the PDF files to either EPS, JPG, or PNG when imported to the

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: dd if=oldfile bs=1 iseek=1 | tr '\r' '\n' >newfile Rod, The dd version here (from GNU coreutils 8.25, 2016) does not have an iseek option, but it does have a seek option: seek=N skip N obs-sized blocks at start of output. However, when I run

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: iseek is the same as skip, so: Rod, Okay. I didn't learn that from the man page here. Change iseek -> skip, not to seek, seek in gnu dd is == oseek. And yes, that is the option that kills the first byte of the file. Without skip I manually

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: # tr -d "\r" < hatchery_returns-2019-08-12.csv > hatchery_returns-2019-08-12.clean # file hatchery_returns-2019-08-12.clean hatchery_returns-2019-08-12.clean: ASCII text, with very long lines Rod, Here, tr -d "\r" <

Re: [PLUG] Setting initinal/default emacs frame size [FIXED]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, Ali Corbin wrote: Have you tried using X to accomplish this? Ali, No, I haven't. Putting: emacs*geometry: widthxheight[+/-off+/-off] into ~/.Xresources or ~/.Xdefaults or where such things are read on your computer. Well, shame on me! Yes, ~/.Xdefaults has an

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n [WORKING]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Do I need that option? Answer: Nope. Removing that option converted 12M (quickly). The file command has nothing about line terminators. When viewed in emacs each line ends in a comma, but it is separated from the prior line. This is seen since

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n [WORKING]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: I'll use emacs' regex search/replace to replace the EOL with \n. Correction: it has the proper \n at the end of each long line, and following a comma and a space. Removing spaces and EOL commas makes for nice files. Rich

[PLUG] Setting initinal/default emacs frame size

I'm running emacs-26.2. My web searches for setting the initial/default frame size find elisp solutions for ~/.emacs, but so far all of them are apparently for earlier versions and use deprecated syntax. So far I've tried a half-dozen solutions and they do either nothing or emacs tells me there's

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n [WORKING]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, Robert Citek wrote: Sounds like you used Emacs to do the equivalent of this: < hatchery_returns-2019-08-12.csv \ tr -s '\r\n' '\n' | sed -e 's/, /,/g;s/,$//' \ hatchery_returns-2019-08-12.cleaned.csv Is that right? Robert, Nope. On the command line I ran: dd if=

Re: [PLUG] Setting initinal/default emacs frame size

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, Johnathan Mantey wrote: From emacswiki I found the initial-frame-alist and default-frame-alist variables. I added a single line into my .emacs file and renamed my init.el file. (setq initial-frame-alist '((top . 10) (left . 20) (width . 150) (height . 25)))

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, a...@clueserver.org wrote: Have you looked at dos2unix? Alan, That was the first thing I tried before writing to the list. It did nothing. Using dd does a great (but rather slow) job. Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Any Java experts here?

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: How did you download jdk8u221 from SBo? Never mind. It took their web server an hour or so to recognize my e-mail address as the user name. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] Any Java experts here?

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Using jdk-8u221 allowed me to build and run JabRef 2.9.2. That version is so old it's barely functional; has no document type 'report' and defaults to 'other.' And, it does not show the categories. Final note: with jdk-8u221 as the only jdk

Re: [PLUG] Any Java experts here?

On Sat, 10 Aug 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: Slackware-current x86_64 RYZEN cpu JDK8 u2xx from SBo Ben, How did you download jdk8u221 from SBo? When I try that link first took me to Oracle's sign in/register page. So I created an account with them. Then, when I tried to sign in, the server asked

Re: [PLUG] Any Java experts here?

On Sat, 10 Aug 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: JabRef also lists JDK as a dependency, not openjdk. There might be a reason for this. Using jdk-8u221 allowed me to build and run JabRef 2.9.2. That version is so old it's barely functional; has no document type 'report' and defaults to 'other.' And, it

Re: [PLUG] uname question

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote: You'll want to google for KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION (and perhaps also KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP) to see how those are generated. Thanks, Paul. If the answer's there I missed seeing it. But, it really doesn't matter as the system boots and knows it's 64-bits.

[PLUG] uname question

The output of 'uname -a' on the new desktop is: Linux baetis 4.4.186 #2 SMP Sun Jul 21 20:34:29 CDT 2019 x86_64 AMD Ryzen 7 2700 Eight-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux What does the '#2 SMP' mean following the kernel version number? It does not seem to fit the options shown on the uname man

Re: [PLUG] C program: configures & builds, segfaults on invocation [FIXED]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: I've been working with the developer on this and we're both out of ideas so I'm looking for suggestions from experienced C coders here before reaching out on LQ. Fixed. One argument to the return value of strftime was local_format. Changing

Re: [PLUG] Setting initinal/default emacs frame size

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, Johnathan Mantey wrote: I'm guessing Xdefaults is winning. Try removing the value there and try the alist method. Johnathan, I set the width/height values the same in Xdefaults and .emacs. If Xdefaults overrides what's in the emacs file I'll wait until tomorrow since

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: I think od -c does NOT output the \n.. no, looked closely at a hd of the file. First byte of the file is 0xa, A LF ok, so thats odd. After that the lines do appear to be seperated by 0x0d, which is CR all by itself, these are NOT CR-LF windows format

Re: [PLUG] C program: builds but segfaults when invoked

On Fri, 2 Aug 2019, Louis Kowolowski wrote: Actually, run gdb on jpilot and get at least a stack trace, better if you can get it to dump core. then you can provide the trace/core to the devs for further analysis. Louis, Good suggestion. I've not run gdb for a long time and will re-learn how

Re: [PLUG] C program: builds but segfaults when invoked

On Fri, 2 Aug 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: Check version numbers and dependencies. It's possible that you have installed a different version of a dependency that is throwing it off. - what version of jpilot are you building? - have you modified any of the slackware packages or config files jpilot

Re: [PLUG] Useful links - was {Re: Wireless home LAN - security? WiFi vs Bluetooth?}

On Sat, 3 Aug 2019, Russell Senior wrote: Have you considered paper punch tape? Or 80-column Hollerith cards and an 029 keypunch? Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] fsck: recommended options?

My daily logwatch report shows kernel errors on the external backup drive, /dev/sdb/, an ext3 file system. It's been a very long time since I had occasion to manually run fsck. After turning no the enclosure (and leaving the drive unmounted) what command line options should I add to fsck.ext3?

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n [WORKING]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: If you had followed the thread you would know that byte 1 of the file is a 0xA, aka LF, and the dd was to rip that byte off the file, but the command got morphed cause I used a BSD iseek=1 syntax, and gnu dd does not understand that. I don't want

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n [WORKING]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, Robert Citek wrote: Interesting. I did a histogram on the number of fields. Is it expected that the number of fields is not consistent across all records? Robert, Shouldn't be. Not all columns will hold values for each row, but the number of columns (fields in the csv

Re: [PLUG] Any Java experts here?

On Sat, 10 Aug 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: JabRef also lists JDK as a dependency, not openjdk. There might be a reason for this. This issue has gone beyond rediculous. - I removed openjdk7, openjdk8, openjfx. - Built and installed openjdk7. - Built openjdk8, removed openjdk7, installed openjdk8

Re: [PLUG] Any Java experts here?

On Sat, 10 Aug 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: I don't have time this weekend to figure this out, but I did attempt to reproduce the problem Slackware-current x86_64 RYZEN cpu JDK8 u2xx from SBo Jabref from SBo The SBo JabRef is version 2.8.2. The current version is 4.3.1. I had run 3.8.2 on the

Re: [PLUG] Any Java experts here?

On Sat, 10 Aug 2019, Tomas Kuchta wrote: Openjdk8 should not depend on open jdk 7. Tomas, However, for whatever the reason the Slackbuilds.org openjdk8 requires openjdk7. Given that the current openJdk version is 11, it looks like somewhat misconfigured system. JabRef requires jdk8; I

Re: [PLUG] Any Java experts here?

On Fri, 9 Aug 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: All SBo scripts  are categorized and tested for a given slackware version. They are guaranteed to work on a fresh and UNMODIFIED slackware installation. If you build from an SBo script and the software does not work, then you have either modified your slack

[PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

I have large (~111M) .csv data files exported from a Microsoft Access database. Each file is one large block of text using ^M (carriage return) embedded as the line separator. 'sed' is probably the best tool to translate that control character to a newline (\n) but I don't know how to write '^M'

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Oh. I'll try that on a copy because I saw no newlines in the downloaded files. The output file is one line, all 111M of it. :-) Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote: tr -d '\r' < infile.csv > outfile.csv Thanks, Paul. I didn't know if tr would recognize ^M as \r so I used cat | tr "^M" "\n" and that changed it to the Mac format, rather than the UNIX format, for some reason Regards, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Paul Heinlein Also, you can use "od -c" to verify the C-style character name tr will recognize. od -c inffile | less Tried this; less showed nothing until the end of the file. Without piping output to less the last character in the file was \r. Running 'cat | tr "\r"

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: Are you sure it is not ^J^M, your probably only seeing the ^M in emacs, this is known as CR LF line termination. Rodney, Yep. Many ways to fix it.. dos2unix is a common utility... Did this; emacs still shows ^M but the status line indicates

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Paul Heinlein wrote: My original recipe above merely deletes carriage returns; it leaves newlines intact. Paul, Oh. I'll try that on a copy because I saw no newlines in the downloaded files. Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Michael Ewan wrote: tr is your friend tr '\013' '\n' < old_file > new_file this will probably work also tr '\r' '\n' < old_file > new_file Michael, As I've written, it should but doesn't. The smallest file can be downloaded from . Regards,

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Jason Barbier wrote: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/5779/how-to-convert-dos-windows-newline-characters-to-unix-format-within-gnu-emacs that covers it with emacs Jason, I looked at that thread and clicking on emacs' : in the status bar confirmed it is seen as

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n [RESOLVED]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Jason Barbier wrote: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/5779/how-to-convert-dos-windows-newline-characters-to-unix-format-within-gnu-emacs that covers it with emacs and if sed or tr is your speed

Re: [PLUG] uname question

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) involves a multiprocessor computer hardware and software architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single, shared

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: I am starting to think you file may not actually BE windows/dos line formatted, but something od, your output from od -c should have lots of \r \n sequences in it. Rodney, Emacs shows it as a MAC style file. I understand that Macs use only \r (CR)

Re: [PLUG] Translating ^M to \n

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: My guess.. this was a browser downloaded .csv file? So line endings have been mangled by the web. Rodney, Yes, these files were downloaded from the agency's web site using the 'Download' button. Last week I downloaded the database as a single

[PLUG] urxvt: long prompt shifts, doesn't wrap

Two hosts running Slackware-14.2 with xfce4. The monitor on one is a wide screen, 1600x900 dpi resolution. The monitor on the other is a square screen, 1250x1024 dpi resolution. Virtual terminals on both hosts use urxvt. On the wide monitor when I'm several subdirectories down or there's a long

Re: [PLUG] Firefox or security problems

On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: You had a typo in your URL so this test is invalid so far Try opening the page again with http:// Another site that uses only http is http://www.portlandgasprices.com/ Rich ___ PLUG mailing list

[PLUG] When Mailman list dies ...

... why do monthly subscription reminders continue to be sent? Just curious, Rich -- I dream of an America where a chicken can cross the road without having its motives questioned. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

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