Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/14/00:01:56
At 05:53 PM 13/01/1998 -0500, François Pinard wrotes:
>baldo AT luna DOT internet DOT com DOT uy writes:
>
>> Hello. This is to announce that I have writen now a first English version
>> of my program Icd, it is hard to me to write English so I hope one of
>> you English users will use it!
>
>I'm French speaker, but will be happy to take a look. I hope you will
>accept a few comments about your message, and not be hurt. Be sure it
>is not my intent.
No please! I like ANY comments, no matter if they are complaints or
suggestions or whatever. Thanks for your comments!
>> By the time it is only downloadable from my WEB page at Xoom:
>> http://xoom.com/baldo, search for a link in my programs section.
>
>This URL yields an automatically generated error page suggesting that it
>should have been written:
>
> http://members.xoom.com/baldo/
Then it has changed? I have never had problems with the other URL. So, I
will change it now ASAP...
>instead. This one works. There are references to this address in your
>program sources, they should be changed as well. Your Web page says:
>
> Welcome to Ivan Baldo´s Home Page!
>
>Instead, just use an apostrophe, like in:
>
> Welcome to Ivan Baldo's Home Page!
>
>This change would also apply to other places in your Web pages as well.
I don't understand why the HTML Editor who comes with Netscape 3.01 Gold
produces that code, I use this editor for my pages, I don't know how to
write the HTML code. But, what is the problem with the "´"?
>Your signature says:
>
>> Ivan Baldo:
>> E-Mail: baldo AT internet DOT com DOT uy.
>> Alternate E-Mail: ibaldo AT usa DOT net.
>> Another alternate E-Mail: lubaldo AT adinet DOT com DOT uy.
>> Web page: http://xoom.com/baldo.
>> Phone: (598) (2) 613 3223.
>> Caldas 1781, Malvin, Montevideo, Uruguay, South America.
>
>You should ideally keep it to four lines or less, per Usenet etiquette.
>I know that the netiquette is only mildly followed, but you might want
>to give the good example.
A small one? But it is already small...
>Merely replying to your message uses `baldo AT luna DOT internet DOT com DOT uy' for a
>return address, which is neither of the three address you give in your
>signature. Let me suggest that you pick one which works, and give only
>one address, if you think it is reasonable. If easy for you, generate
>a Reply-To: field in all your outgoing email (or manage to have a From:
>which is what you want). This helps your correspondents, relieving them
>from the need to track all the complexity.
I don't understand that email account provider: to configure my email
program I have to put baldo AT mail DOT internet DOT com DOT uy; when I send messages, it
seems that the real address is baldo AT luna DOT internet DOT com DOT uy; but if you send
a message to baldo AT internet DOT com DOT uy it works nice and also the URL is
shorter, so I think that it is correct that address, BTW what is the
problem or complexity with this? I don't know how do you write your
messages, but I think that it should work just pressing reply...
>> Ok, I hope this is a correct place to announce DJGPP software, if not,
>> please write to me and I will not announce it here anymore and sorry for
>> disturb.
>> Sorry for waste bandwith also...
>
>For the sake of efficiency, maybe you should have given directly the Icd
>page, without forcing people to go through your personal pages, like:
>
> http://members.xoom.com/baldo/ingles/icd.htm
I will do this the next time.
>or even better, for those using batch tools, the distribution itself:
>
> http://members.xoom.com/baldo/icdsrc.zip
Also I will do this next time. But remember that you have to download
http://members.xoom.com/baldo/ingles/icd.zip also to get the proper
documentation.
>About icd.htm, at least on the renderer I use here (Netscape 4, currently),
>green letters on the irregular grayish background is not easy to read.
>Please avoid a common error, where people loose sight that a text should
>be made as readable as possible. Artistic effects should never impige
>on readability.
Yes, you are right, but I am lazy to decide wich color to use... but I
will do this ASAP.
>> Also I would like to know if there are good directory changers for
>> Linux and if would be good and handfull to make a port of Icd to Linux
>> (I dont have installed Linux yet, but I am planing so in 2 months...).
>
>I'm not aware of any yet. This is as a Linux user that I got interested
>in your announcement.
So, it would be nice a port?
>> Currently: Freeware. Maybe in near future it would be GPL.
>
>Before you really go mad at me (:-), I'll stop my comments now, yet I would
>have many suggestions to make about the presentation and coding of your
>program sources. Instead of detailing them, maybe you would like, as a
>first step, to consider adhering to GNU coding standards? There are most
>probably available within this directory (yet I did not check recently):
>
> ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/standards/
Ok, I will see them ASAP.
>They are also bundled within the Autoconf distribution. In any case,
>please feel free if you want to discuss things further with me, and I do
>hope you will forgive me to criticize so much.
Please! Your criticism is very constructive! I appreciate it!
I do my best, believe me. I am a bit new in internet, djgpp, gnu and all
that. I have internet access from about 8 months I think. I use DJGPP from
7 months I think, I joined this mailing list from less time yet. So, I hope
that you and all the cool people in this list forgive me and help me on all
this stuff, so I can do the things better and in the right way for everyone.
Thanks again and goodbye!
P.S.: I have problems with baldo AT internet DOT com DOT uy now, just the day after I
have posted this announce! So, please, all the people that have answered
and written to me, forward your letters to lubaldo AT adinet DOT com DOT uy, thanks.
Ivan Baldo:
E-Mail: baldo AT internet DOT com DOT uy (in this moment it is broken, no send emails
to this address).
Alternate E-Mail: ibaldo AT usa DOT net.
Another alternate E-Mail: lubaldo AT adinet DOT com DOT uy (send emails to this
address by the time).
Web page: http://members.xoom.com/baldo.
Phone: (598) (2) 613 3223.
Caldas 1781, Malvin, Montevideo, Uruguay, South America.
My WEB page:
- Icd (a fast fuzzy directory changer for DOS,
Freeware compiled with DJGPP and with full
source code).
- Some other silly thinks...
- English (new) and Spanish languages.
- Raw text -