On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, david wrote:
Thanks. Can an updated binary be available to for us compiler-challenged Linux users?
Linux isn't that unified. To start with, there seems to be Gnu and SysV variants on where things like locks are stored. Mandrake went with SysV, I think. I might want to inspect a recent Berkley Standard Distribution to see if Mandrake isn't more of a thorn in UNIX than it must be. Understanding linux *requires* these commands performed as root: tar -zxvf XFracTint make XFracTint man XFracTint And, as I said, you'll get a slightly speedier XFracTint if you compile it than in a binary, because a binary is compiled for the lowest common denominator, which would be a 386 in the case of a Linux and perhaps an 8086 in the case of DOS. If you can knock Mandrake for anything, it's compiling for the Pentium two, and seeming to claim that THIS is the first processor to support four gigabytes of virtual memory, when it was the 386, although the ISA bus that those things typically ran on would force you to dedicate half of your addressable RAM (16MB) for nothing but the address translation table if you put four gigabytes of virtual memory on a 386. _______ Television is for people with no life of their own to live, so I bar it from my living room, where it would contradict the purpose of the room.