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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>
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<center><h1>Updates to My Past Reviews</h1></center>
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<center><h4><a href="mailto: layers@vax2.rainis.net">by Larry
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Ayers</a></h4></center>
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<center>Copyright (c) 1996</center><BR>
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<center><H5>Published in Issue 12 of the Linux Gazette</H5></center>
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<p>I've been writing these short reviews and other articles for the Gazette
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since issue number seven. Even with the short lead time inherent in a
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WWW-based publication it seems like new releases and URL changes often happen
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right after I submit an article. The status of several of the programs has
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changed since I wrote of them, so I thought I'd take this opportunity to list
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some of these changes.
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<p>By the way, I appreciate all of the email I've received in response to my
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articles; feel free to write if you have any comments or criticism.
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<ul>
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<li><b>Moxfm</b> hasn't been updated since version 1.00 was released
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several months ago, but it's working well in the current version. I've
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included it here because I've received several e-mail messages stating
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that the URL in the article wasn't working. The current URL of the
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Moxfm home page is
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<a href="http://sugra.desy.de/user/mai/moxfm">http://sugra.desy.de/user/mai/moxfm</a>.
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The source and binaries are in uuencoded form; just let them display on
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the screen of a web-browser, save them to a file, then run "uudecode
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filename.uue".
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<li><b>TkDesk</b> has been through several versions since I wrote of it;
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the current one is 1.0b3, released on Sept.25, 1996. There are many
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new features; one which I use often is a file pop-up menu-item which
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hands the file over to a running Xemacs on another desktop. There is a
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similar capability involving HTML files and Netscape (or another
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browser). Check out the
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<a href="http://sun1.rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de/~zzhibol/tkdesk">TkDesk
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web-page</a> for the latest news.
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<li><b>FileRunner</b> has been developing rapidly in the past few months.
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It's current version is 2.1.1, and many refinements have been made.
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It's FTP capabilities have been greatly improved; FTP downloads can now
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run as a background process, and directories can be displayed
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date-ordered. Remote FTP directories can be saved as bookmarks
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(accessible from a menu). Many configuration options have been added
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as well. The built-in shell windows which follow you from directory to
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directory are very handy. They allow you to see the output of
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non-interactive commands (such as compilation) and can be dismissed
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when not needed. There is a
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<a href="http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~hch/filerunner.html">FileRunner
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web-page</a> from which the source can be obtained, as well as from
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<a href="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xutils/managers/">the Sunsite
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archive.</a>.
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<li><b>Elvis</b> has finally made it to a major release; version 2.00 was
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announced recently. It's available from its
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<a href="ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/">official site</a>. Elvis is
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remarkable for the small size of the compiled binary, considering how
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powerful an editor it is. Elvis's ability to display HTML in a readable
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form meshes well with the HTML format of the extensive help files.
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<li><b>Vile</b> has a new official maintainer; Paul Fox has handed over the
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reins to another of the primary Vile developers, Thomas Dickey. Version
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6.2 was released recently. For some reason Vile doesn't seem to be as
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popular as Vim and Elvis (judging by news-group postings). I urge
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anyone who favors vi-style editors to give it a try; it really grows on
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you. Vile's new official release site is
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<a href="ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/dickey/vile/">ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/dickey/vile</a>
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<li><b>XaoS</b> in its current release (1.2) has a new feature which increases
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its usability for those running X with more than 256 colors: it'll run!
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Previous releases only worked on 8-bit displays.
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<li><b>Yodl</b> version 1.08 has been released; it's mainly a
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"small-bug-fix" release, i.e. if a previous version does what you want,
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you probably don't need it. It's at sunsite.
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<li><b>Procmeter</b> has been updated to version 2.2; changes include a
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choice of solid or bar-type graphing, and refinement of network packet
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transfer display.
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<li><b>Xmosaic</b> development has slowed since my review. The
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powers-that-be at the University of Illinois have decided that Xmosaic
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will be the second, rather than the first, GTK (Graphics ToolKit)
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client to be developed.The GTK is a programming toolkit which will take
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the place of Motif in Xmosaic. Scott Powers, Xmosaic's project leader,
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stated in a message to the mailing list that development will resume in
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a couple of months. The up side to this news is that the GTK is the
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"hard part", so that once work resumes on Xmosaic development progress
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should be rapid. </ul>
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<hr>
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<address><a
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href="http://vax2.rain.gen.mo.us/~layers/">Larry
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Ayers<layers@vax2.rain.gen.mo.us></a></address> <!-- hhmts start -->
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