From: lubaldo AT adinet DOT com DOT uy Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980114010821.00690ee8@adinet.com.uy> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 01:08:21 -0300 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Pinard , djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Icd V1.2b release. In-Reply-To: References: <199801122311 DOT SAA13373 AT delorie DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk 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.