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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« Last post by Tuxman on July 03, 2020, 11:40 AM »

Thunderbird doesn’t have add-ons anymore? Ew.

(Here I am, still using Pandora ... while keeping an eye on Pegasus.)

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Living Room / Re: How can I automatically mirror specific folders in the cloud?

« Last post by Tuxman on June 30, 2020, 05:18 AM »

How can I specify specific folders or files and mirror them automatically in the cloud?

-kalos (June 29, 2020, 02:50 AM)

Use hard links.

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Living Room / Re: [2018] Wanted: Console Text Editor for Windows

« Last post by Tuxman on June 29, 2020, 08:33 PM »

The TextEditors wiki - where I had contributed in the past - suffers from a lack of maintenance of existing pages. There are a lot of 404 links over there and my day only has 24 hours. Maybe someone of you feels able to fix those?

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Living Room / [2018] Wanted: Console Text Editor for Windows

« Last post by Tuxman on June 29, 2020, 10:24 AM »

A pretty good article that made me rediscover the GRIEF editor:
https://virtuallyfun...-editor-for-windows/

(Now I usually use Emacs and/or Acme, but a good Windows CLI editor is still good to have.)

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY 2020 Mug-shots

« Last post by Tuxman on June 22, 2020, 04:59 PM »

I think I'll just stop caring for DC mugs. My next NANY entries will save you some money: Not ordering any for me will make no difference and I still get my stuff released. 

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: sfd: Download a web page as one single file

« Last post by Tuxman on June 22, 2020, 04:57 PM »

Pfff. Why do I even attach binaries?
I'll clarify above.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: sfd: Download a web page as one single file

« Last post by Tuxman on June 22, 2020, 02:45 PM »

Probably not, unless you want to hack the source code. Like Pascal/Delphi, Go usually produces static binaries.
edit: Just imagine that you had not edited your post.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / sfd: Download a web page as one single file

« Last post by Tuxman on June 22, 2020, 01:05 PM »

sfd -url https://some.website/foo.html -target .

--> You'll have a single .htm file that includes all CSS, JS and image resources baked right into the source code. Enjoy or whatever.

Sources: https://code.rosaelefanten.org/sfd
Binaries: Attached.

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General Software Discussion / Re: SoftMaker Office 2021 announced (free beta)

« Last post by Tuxman on June 01, 2020, 01:44 PM »

New customers (or those getting the upgrade in a few days) will get Paint Shop Pro for free. I asked the SoftMaker guys whether I could get WordPerfect Office from the same vendor instead. They didn’t answer ...

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General Software Discussion / Re: SoftMaker Office 2021 announced (free beta)

« Last post by Tuxman on May 22, 2020, 03:08 PM »

Office 365 has a shitty user interface, which drove me away from MS Office in 2007 in the first place.

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General Software Discussion / WordPerfect Office 2020

« Last post by Tuxman on May 22, 2020, 08:27 AM »

Ah, while we're at it: WordPerfect Office 2020 is released!
https://www.wordperfect.com/en/

The prices are still interesting, but the new Microsoft Office filters seem to work just fine. Sadly, the also-new .odt import/export is a bit quirky yet. I hope they can fix it.

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General Software Discussion / SoftMaker Office 2021 announced (free beta)

« Last post by Tuxman on May 22, 2020, 08:24 AM »

Available for Windows, macOS and inferior "systems", SoftMaker has already released their first Office 2021 beta version into the wild. I'm currently trying it on macOS and it seems to work just fine. Currently, a paid license enables me to install it on "up to five computers", so my two Windowses and my one MacBook would be covered. The only thing that prevents me from instantly buying it is that SoftMaker has already started to introduce features which are only available in the subscription version "Office NX" and I hate subscriptions...

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY 2020 Mug-shots

« Last post by Tuxman on May 01, 2020, 02:54 AM »

It happens every year... 

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / Re: NANY 2020 Mug-shots

« Last post by Tuxman on May 01, 2020, 02:30 AM »

Mine isn’t here yet.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Humble Bundle: WordPerfect Office X9 (and more) for 16 £ or more

« Last post by Tuxman on April 16, 2020, 11:05 AM »

"Only" 20 days left, but if you still don't have WordPerfect Office, the best* available office suite, this is your chance:

https://www.humblebu...work-remote-software

* Unless you require XLSX/DOCX format support which is currently not that great in WordPerfect/Quattro Pro. I assume that WordPerfect Office 20, probably coming in May or June, will fix that.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: SCCS support for the zsh shell

« Last post by Tuxman on April 10, 2020, 10:39 AM »

Personally, I dislike the zsh (it does too many things), but I am currently spending some time with a Mac and they come with the zsh these days. Trying to make it relatively useful is annoying.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / SCCS support for the zsh shell

« Last post by Tuxman on April 10, 2020, 03:50 AM »

I wrote a plugin for oh-my-zsh that displays the status of SCCS "repositories". GitHub, this time (because it's a pull request):

https://github.com/d...2b8d092/plugins/sccs



If the oh-my-zsh folks won't merge it before December 2020, I'll make this a NANY entry as well and host it somewhere else. 

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: dehexify: Converts %FF-like hexadecimal characters to ASCII

« Last post by Tuxman on March 05, 2020, 03:52 AM »

I admit that my tool is not made for automatization. If you need to process ("pipe") hex strings automatically, a Perl script might be a better choice...

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DC Member Programs and Projects / dehexify: Converts %FF-like hexadecimal characters to ASCII

« Last post by Tuxman on March 05, 2020, 03:23 AM »

Useful for JSON transfer analysis. Enjoy.

(Update: Smaller binary.)

Source code: https://code.rosaelefanten.org/dehexify

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: blogcpp: Static blogging in C++17

« Last post by Tuxman on January 26, 2020, 04:21 PM »

After one year of not doing anything with this software, I wanted to return to development. I wanted to fix a long-standing pagination issue. Turns out threading is broken, it stops working unexpectedly while trying to generate a site...

(I moved the code to my server with a GitHub mirror, but I cannot announce it on the site itself because of that. Well... lol, I guess.)

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini review: The Acme editor on Debian on Windows

« Last post by Tuxman on January 21, 2020, 05:26 AM »

Heads up: plan9port's Acme supports file names with spaces now.
https://github.com/9...f5977d12bea820e921ca

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera 12.15's source code has been leaked online

« Last post by Tuxman on January 20, 2020, 10:22 AM »

Where are their releases on non-anonymous servers?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera 12.15's source code has been leaked online

« Last post by Tuxman on January 20, 2020, 08:43 AM »

I doubt that anyone would want to work on something that has only been released without having a license to do so.

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Living Room / Who‘s on Usenet?

« Last post by Tuxman on January 07, 2020, 05:29 PM »

Among my to-be-finished pieces of software, there is a sane Usenet client for Windows. Does anyone here feel the urge to have it ready for NANY 2021 or can I safely postpone it?

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: ShutUp10 - Mini-Review

« Last post by Tuxman on January 07, 2020, 03:45 AM »

I love how the website for this "privacy tool" includes Google Analytics.