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The function keys don't seem to be accessible under Linux

So, it appears I have to try and get the Windows version working properly under Wine. 

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Graham Chiu
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Graham:

The function keys don't seem to be accessible under Linux

So, it appears I have to try and get the Windows version working properly under Wine. 

 On a sort of related vein, I have a question -- how about a catchy title for this new CD we are working on?   There are gobs of Puppy Linux variants - Muppy (by Mark Ullrich), Grafpup, Churchpup, Timuxine, Hacao Linux (Vietnamese distro), the list goes on and on.  In a similar vein, I thought of naming it after Graham -- Guppy, but that didn't seem quite right ;-)......

 How about simply Synthesis? I don't think that one is "claimed" in the Linux world, but don't quote me on it.  You never know, it could work into a line of "S"....Synapse, Synthesis......

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Or how about Axon as it helps Synapse to reach out to others ?

 

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Graham Chiu
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Graham:

Or how about Axon as it helps Synapse to reach out to others ?

 

Just did a quick google on Axxonis (a pharmaceutical firm), Axxona (a polish word, not sure of the meaning-only 135 hits), Axonna (a particular females' first name), Aaxxon (a company), Axonis (another company), Axon (4.5 million google hits, several company names, etc), Axxon (several company names, a group dedicated to deviant art), Axonn (more company names), Axxonn (more company names, etc), and finally Axxonna (a polish group, only 1 google hit, yes, one)

 So, for "uniqueness" based upon an extensive 10 min google survey, I would pick Axxona, or Axxonna (so far) -- ;))

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Graham Chiu
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I like Zaxxon.

:)

Project Axxonna: Synapse's Live CD.

I think it's hard for endusers to understand what the CD is .... "Live CD" seems be a common term for this type of setup.  Might want to slip those words in there :) 

 

 

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Jason:

  

Project Axxonna: Synapse's Live CD.

I think it's hard for endusers to understand what the CD is .... "Live CD" seems be a common term for this type of setup.  Might want to slip those words in there :) 

Wow, that sega pic says it all.... :)   Good reminder, I sort of flip in and out of using the term Live CD.  Interested users will probably need to read a blurb or go to the Moka5 website to understand what a Moka5 LivePC is.  I'm sort of loosely referring to the Moka5 engine as the "Virtual Machine Abstraction Layer" after HAL.  That would probably be only be understood readily by geeks, though.

 

 

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The latest Linux binary seems to do everything except produce PDFs using ghostscript.  So, nearly there.

 

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Graham Chiu
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Ok, have determined that the reason ghostscript was seemingly not working on linux was because it was returning a non-zero return code even though it was creating the PDF!

Shouldn't take long to fix this now.

 

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Graham Chiu
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I was using the browse and acrobat plugin to overcome a problem with windows as acrobat locks the file it is reading.  But on linux, this makes less sense, and so I think I'll just invoke the default pdf/ps viewer on the file directly.

 

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Graham Chiu
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Graham:

I was using the browse and acrobat plugin to overcome a problem with windows as acrobat locks the file it is reading.  But on linux, this makes less sense, and so I think I'll just invoke the default pdf/ps viewer on the file directly.

 

 
Speaking of pdf/ps file viewer, I will see if Evince can be gotten to work on our LiveCD/LivePC, as it works just like Acrobat Reader and can fill out form fields on AcroForms.  Graham says it will work as a viewer for TIFF files as well.  I got our Wine ODBC/Firebird/synapse stuff to work today on SLAX 5.1.7b LiveCD.  There is an existing Moka5 LivePC for this version, so hey folks, I think we're about there.  I still would like to make "our own" Linux LiveCD/Moka5 LivePC version and name it Axxon or Axxonna or something as we smooth it out and customize more stuff.
 

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Graham:

Ok, have determined that the reason ghostscript was seemingly not working on linux was because it was returning a non-zero return code even though it was creating the PDF!

Shouldn't take long to fix this now.

 

We had some problems with gs generating error codes when printing converted raw faxg3 files before -- stuff like "---no string val ---", etc.  Tcl has a command called "catch" to snuff inconsequential errors and proceed.  I'm assuming REBOL must have a similar function.
 

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Jerry>> Tcl has a command called "catch" to snuff inconsequential errors and proceed.  I'm assuming REBOL must have a similar function.

Nope [:'(] 

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Graham Chiu
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If you have a blank preview screen (fax), then see here. ( this works on debian based distros )

If you get a message about missing library, then see here. 

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Graham Chiu
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Would greatly appreciate any tips on how to set this kind of system up to run off a HDD or USB keydrive, will look into puppy linux live CD. Obviously runs on it's own independent of the OS of the computer you are on?