* There are now 44 names on the faces mailing list, plus 3 remote alias
exploders.
* I will try to get the mailing list archives (by month) onto indiana in
compressed format before the end of the week. If not then, it will
definitely be when I get back.
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Here's patch #2 for faces v1.5. It tries to incorporate all the unofficial
patches that have been posted to the list or mailed to me, while I've been
away, and adds to the TODO file anything I haven't had a chance to fix.
The list of changes are included at the end of this message. The actual
patch (or a version of faces which is completely patched) is available from
a variety of places (see below).
The patch is in the form of a shar file containing a set of diffs to apply
to the faces source, plus three new files.
The shar file should be copied to the directory where your faces source
files are, and then unpacked. You should use Larry Wall's patch program to
apply the diffs included in this shar. Assuming the shar file is called
faces.patch2.shar, then you should do the following:
cd faces_src # directory where your faces source files are.
sh faces.patch2.shar # unpack files into faces directory.
patch -p0 <faces.patch2.diffs
make x11 # Or xview, sunview or news.
make install # You might have to be super-user.
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If you'd rather not do this, then the latest version of faces (fully patched)
is available from a variety of places:
* I've put a copy in the pub/faces/incoming directory on iuvax.cs.indiana.edu,
for those of you who have anon ftp capabilities. Steve, could you do your
bit with this file please, and place a copy in the parent directory?
I've also put a copy of the uuencoded compressed Patch2 shar file in there.
* For Sun employees around the world, you can get the fully patched latest
version via anon ftp from stard.aus.
* For Australian sites without ftp capabilities, faces.tar.Z is available
via fetchfile from sunaus.sun.oz
* And finally both the patch and the fully patched latest version of faces
are available via the automatic mail archive server. Requests should be
sent to rb-archive-server@Aus.Sun.COM. To just get patch #2, then the
message should contain the line:
send faces patch2
If you want the complete fully patched version of faces v1.5.2, then you
should send fifteen messages containing the lines:
send faces partn
where n = 1-15. You can do this is one message, but the archive server
processes smaller messages faster. UUCP sites out there might like to
include a path line with each message, something like:
path uunet.uu.net!hostname!user
note that this is uunet.uu.net and not just uunet. Sun.COM doesn't
recognise uunet. This is the return path the archive server will use to
send your requests to. Also UUCP sites should note that you probably have a
size limit on each message. Yet another good reason to divide these into
multiple requests.
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Three more points...
* Let me know where I've botched up. If I have, I'll post an official
patchlet near the end of the week.
* I will be leaving Mtn View for England next Saturday. I will then be
"off-the-air" until about June 5th.
* When I get back, I'd like to divide up faces into three programs:
- (faces) the actual program that will display a list of face images.
- (faces daemon) a program that will return a face image given a username
and a hostname. The faces program should also tell the faces daemon what
formats it can handle (.xbm, 48x48x1, .ps etc...).
- a set of filter programs. The new mail, all mail, line printer support,
remore users, would be separated out into individual filter programs,
and the appropriate one would talk to the faces program and the faces
daemon.
Doing this will allow each indivual program/filter to be worked on
separately, and improved. This can be divided among the interested faces
developers out there on this list.
I also realise that there are quite a few things to be discussed and
decided here. Questions such as:
- how should the faces program talk to the faces daemon ? (nntp, rpc,
sockets ...)
- how should the faces program talk to the filter program ? (rpc, pipes ...)
I hope some of this can be thrashed out while I'm away.
Rich Burridge, DOMAIN: richb@Aus.Sun.COM
Sun Microsystems. ACSNET: richb@sunaus.sun.oz
PHONE: +61 2 911 4212 UUCP: {uunet,mcvax,ukc}!munnari!sunaus.oz!richb
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v1.5 - patchlevel 2 - 6th May 1991.
- From Dick Keene <rkeene@sunrock.East.Sun.COM>
* I had to comment out line 170 in faces.h to compile for xview.
It complained of a re-declaration of endpwent().
* New filter program called filters/vpxtoicon.c. It converts 8 bit
snapshots from the Sun video pix board to Sun icons. It does a
scale, and a histogram equalization. Then you can convert the
icon to face format with icon2ikon and compface.
[I've added this to the filters directory, but have not added it
to the "all" definition in the Makefile as it requires Sun specific
include files and libraries to compile. If you are on a Sun, and
you want to build it, then you should do a "make vpxtoicon"].
- From John Mackin <john@syd.dit.csiro.au>
New portable and correct version of the faces.sendmail script, which
only uses one invocation of sed.
- From Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@cwi.nl>
I have compiled faces 1.5.1 on some of our systems and I came across
a few problems.
* Added #include "faces.h" to address.y so that realloc() would be
declared.
* Removed the declaration of sprintf() from faces.h, because that
is alreade done in stdio.h, and because the definitions clashed on
one of our systems.
* In mon.c, changed the declarations of two chars to ints. One of
them is essential, because it is compared to EOF.
* I changed the declaration of reply in do_prog() in mon.c to char *,
because it is assigned the result of fgets.
* Apart from this, I also had to add -Umips and -lsun -lc_s in order
to compile faces successfully on a Silicon Graphics system. These
extra cpp flags and libraries could be put in extra variables in
the Makefile.dist.
- From Mark Shand <shand@prl.dec.com>
Adjustments to the TODO file.
* add bullet-proofing of uncompface().
* remove TODO for RFC822 parsing (included recently by John Mackin).
- From Ignatios Souvatzis <u502sou@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Various small changes needed for Convex 8.1.
* Added a BZERO definition to the Makefile.dist file, for people
without memset().
* Changed strchr in main.c and rec.c to index (this should be handled
by the NOINDEX definition in Makefile.dist)
- From Steve Kinzler <kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
* When compiling on a DECStation under Ultrix 4.0, I needed to add an
"#include <ctype.h>" line to mon.c and x11.c (and xview.c probably,
if I'd used it).
* A small bug in compface/Makefile.
- From Steve Kinzler <kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
* I found a couple of bugs in faces v1.5.1's display when it's
running a -e script and the window is iconified.
* I've revised faces/scripts to make use of the new ability to
specify iconified window displays for -e scripts. There are two
new faces scripts:
- newscheck.faces
- newsfrom.faces
- From Steve Kinzler <kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Implemented John's suggestion:
> From John Mackin <john@syd.dit.csiro.au>
> Another performance improvement:
> Another kludge which could cut down the namei overhead substantially
> is to chdir() to the top of each facepath element and do the
> searching of that part of the tree with relative pathnames from
> there, rather than using absolute pathnames all the way from the
> root each time. chdir()'ing is often very bad practice, but in an
> application that can't possibly become interactive we don't have to
> be concerned.
The chdir() is only temporary -- in effect during the search
subroutine, so relative pathnames for -e script locations and
facepath elements and such still work as before. I noted a 25%
performance increase on a test here. Your mileage may vary --
we've got a convoluted path of symlinks to get to /usr/local/faces
on our system.
- From Victor A. Riley <var@iris.brown.edu>
Saves the first encounter of a misc./unknown face, then continues
looking for another face match. This is useful when you have
several face databases. For this to work properly, you should have
the misc. faces in the sample facedir installed in the same location
as your local face database, for instance in /usr/local/faces. If
you have the logos face database, just move the logos/misc. directory
up one level in the hierarchy.
As a future bug fix we can modify the Makefile.dist file so that it
does this when you do a 'make tables'.