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Linux Applications / Stat Command

« on: April 11, 2007, 06:54:24 am »

zgcc is the native compiler that runs on the Z directly. it is not a cross compiler...

Yes... Sorry about the confusion. Found it, thank you.

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Linux Applications / Stat Command

« on: April 04, 2007, 03:07:49 pm »

coreutils are included as part of the zgcc images...
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Thank you. I've got the vmware VM running. Is there some docs available how it is used as cross compiling environment?

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Linux Applications / Stat Command

« on: April 02, 2007, 03:00:51 pm »

Hello,

I need the standard stat command (man stat) from Linux on the Zaurus (Sharp ROM).
The stat command is part of the core utils. Has someone ported it to the Zaurus?

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Software / Softmaker Office 2006 For Zaurus Cancelled

« on: January 18, 2007, 02:45:59 pm »

They probably also don't want to commit any resources for Zaurus port since Zaurus is going to be out of production which means no more potential customers.

I have to say that textmaker2002 only looks promising. But it has a few nasty bugs which prevents productive use for me. Sadly the company behind textmaker does not fix any of these bugs.
I think they have to expect that they loose customers.

p.s.: On a PC (Linux) textmaker 2002 is just a toy compared to OpenOffice.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / 2gb And Up Sd Cards Supported

« on: January 18, 2007, 01:42:45 pm »

I don't know if the flash controllers on the cards understand the fat filesystem enough to do any special wear levelling, but that might be the case and explain why cards seem to wear out quicker using ext3.

No, I think the reason is journal updates.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / 2gb And Up Sd Cards Supported

« on: January 18, 2007, 01:39:39 pm »

Hmmm... is this the same for ext3?

Yes. The main difference between ext2 and ext3 is journalling. ext3 is ext2 with added journalling feature. Which advantages do you expect from journalling on a PDA?
Since journal updates accures quite frequent it in fact may add much wear to a flash memory card.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / 2gb And Up Sd Cards Supported

« on: January 17, 2007, 02:03:50 pm »

From your posting on www.tyrannozaurus.com:

I formatted that 4gb card to ext2 (mkfs.ext2) and this is what system info shows:

SD Card - /mnt/card ext2 : 3860MB
Used (196MB) Available (3664MB)

So I've lost 7% in file space due to linux filesystem overhead compared to Fat32.
Can anyone tell me what's up with that?

Did you add "-m 0" to mke2fs? Normally mke2fs reserves 5% of filesystem space wich can only be used by "root". That is to avoid dos situations if the filsystem is 100% filled (from normal user's point of view). root has additional 5% to give him/her the chance to delete some files. IMO this makes only sense in multi user environments. So you can reclaim this space on the Zaurus.

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General Discussion / Oesf Forum Archive

« on: January 16, 2007, 02:04:25 pm »

EDIT: I just figured out how to "Force" Netfront to open the various threads/links.
It is a time consuming, roundabout method. :( :(
1. Click link, and error message dialog pops up.
2. copy/paste the entire error message into the URL bar in Netfront.
3. Delete all characters to the right of "/indexe965.html" (Starting with the question mark).
4. Now click the "goto" arrow and it will take you to the URL that was given in the error message.

I've had the same problem. It seems that the html files have all links embedded as "redirects", which at least the text mode browser "links" does not understand such links.

Your method was much too inconvenient for me. I converted the links in all about 21000 files by these few sed statements:

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for i in *.html; do perl -pe 's/\?[0-z]{1,10}\.html//g' $i > oesf/data/$i; done
cd oesf/data
for i in *.html; do sed -e "s#\.\./\.\./\.\./external\.html?link=##g" $i > ../../oesf/data1/$i; done
cd ../../oesf/data1
for i in *.html; do sed -e "s#\.\./\.\./\.\./external\.gif?link=##g" $i > ../../oesf/data2/$i; done
Finally I made a cramfs image from oesf/data2 -- ready.

p.s.: Of course all this can be done in one single sed command:

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for i in *.html; do sed -e 's#\?[0-z]{1,10}\.html##g' -e 's#\.\./\.\./\.\./external\.html?link=##g' -e 's#\.\./\.\./\.\./external\.gif?link=##g' $i > oesf/data/$i; done

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General Discussion / Zaurus Out Of Production?

« on: January 14, 2007, 12:35:19 pm »

So i just meant that you won't see the batteries if
you browse through trisoft.de, but if you click at
the "online shop" button, they're listed as "R-EA-BL06"
and "R-EA-BL11".

Thank you for clarifying this. A real alternative to the pricy Sharp battery.

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General Discussion / Zaurus Out Of Production?

« on: January 13, 2007, 04:49:15 pm »

They aren't actually on the website, but in our shop. We have
them for a year now and received no complaints.

Why don't you sell them online?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Portabase -- Resume Delay

« on: October 12, 2006, 01:38:36 pm »

As far as i can remember, it runs fast.  what version are you using?

It *runs* fast but there is a noticeable delay before a running Portabase is usable after switching on the Zaurus. I am using version 1.9.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Portabase -- Resume Delay

« on: October 12, 2006, 11:34:34 am »

Hello,

whenever the Zaurus (C1000) is switched on, it takes a long time until Portabase becomes responsive. I assume the reason is, that Portabase scans all directories for data files every time the Zaurus resumes / cards are remounted. Am I right and how can I avoid it?

Thanks a lot.

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Software / Font Size In Terminal Or Qconsole

« on: June 14, 2006, 10:17:29 am »

If you use lcfont, you don't type "\". If you type \ print the "yen" character.

Yes, you're right.

If you resolve this problem can you tell me the solution.

As there is no way to add entries to the "Fonts" menu, I think the only way is to look for a replacement font (fixed width). You can backup lcfont and rename this new font to "lcfont".

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Software / Font Size In Terminal Or Qconsole

« on: June 06, 2006, 03:22:23 pm »

have you tried pressing fn + 2?

I was a bit inaccurate. fn+1 / fn+2 works with qkonsole. But qkonsole consumes VERY much memory.
"terminal": 13MB (~2MB resident)
qkonsole: 26MB (~11MB resident)

There is always a console window active on my Zaurus. That is the reason why I like to save some memory.

But even qkonsole does not give me 80x25. The best match is something like 78x20. If I have some time available I think I try to replace lcfont with another font which can be generated in sizes like 10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18. Hopefully the width/height ratio will fit in the 80x25 frame.

Thank you anyway.

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Software / Font Size In Terminal Or Qconsole

« on: June 06, 2006, 06:05:49 am »

Hello,

the font size in these applications is a bit too small ("medium fixed"). Is there a way to use a bigger font to get something like 80x25?

Thank you.