Re: ANN: some new freeware and freeware updates for VMS
From: David J. Dachtera (djesys.nospam_at_fsi.net)
Date: 09/08/03
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Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 22:15:25 -0500
Mark Berryman wrote:
>
> The following packages have recently been placed on my server. You can
> find them at:
>
> http://mvb.saic.com/freeware/submissions/
> or
> ftp://mvb.saic.com/submissions/
>
> (so named because that is where I told the Freeware Coordinator that is
> where he could find them).
>
> Ghostscript V8.11
> packaged as a PCSI install kit with a few fixes so that it will build
> correctly on either a VAX or an Alpha. I also added supporting code so
> that you can use the new -dAlignToPixels=0 setting on versions of
> DECWindows earlier than V1.3 (which makes for some really nice-looking
> font rendering). This version will also detect whether or not you are
> running a version of DECWindows that still has Display Postscript
> support and build the ghostscript fontmap accordingly.
>
> Mozplugger V1.3.0
> This is a port of a program, written for Linux, that allows standalone
> programs to be used as a plugin for Mozilla. For example, the default
> config uses XPDF to display PDF files. Mozplugger will activate XPDF
> and then place it in the browser window. MPG123 and Timidity also
> provide great support for viewing those web pages with sound on them.
>
> MPG123 v0.59s-mh4
> I fetched a copy of MPG123 from the author's web site (which,
> apparently, has not been touched since Oct 2000) and fixed the code that
> allows one to specify a URL as the MP3 filename so that it works on VMS.
> I also rewrote the sound support code for VMS since the original code
> was constantly allocating and deallocating buffers and eventually ran
> into memory allocation errors if you played a long enough playlist.
> With the addition of URL support, MPG123 can now be used to support
> streaming MP3 files with Mozplugger.
>
> XPDF v2.02pl1
> The fixes here were mainly in the build procedure (there is a
> configure.com that performs the VMS equivalent of GNU configure that
> needed several updates) as well as some fixes to T1lib so that it
> correctly finds all of the font files XPDF tries to pass to it. If you
> have ghostscript, edit the XPDFRC file to use the font files that come
> with ghostscript and set the two variables t1libControl and
> freetypeControl to high (this is documented in the file). Doing so will
> cause XPDF to render anti-aliased fonts that look as nice as acrobat
> reader does on the PC.
>
> All of the packages build without error on any supported version of VMS.
> I do not have the resources to test on earlier versions. However, if
> you try to build them on earlier versions and they don't work, let me
> know what errors you get and I will try to fix them.
Any chance you can put up object code distributions like Hunter does
with some packages?
-- David J. Dachtera dba DJE Systems http://www.djesys.com/ Unofficial Affordable OpenVMS Home Page: http://www.djesys.com/vms/soho/
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