8 Apr
2015
8 Apr
'15
5:17 a.m.
On Tuesday 07 April 2015 22:46:42 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Tuesday 07 April 2015 20:45:41 Slávek Banko wrote:
Possibly we don't need it. "convertall", while klunky to run because of
its huge 2 pane mode selection menu's, would appear to be capable of
doing all those pesky conversions.
I'll get me coat & go take a nap now. Thanks all.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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On Tuesday 07 of April 2015 11:58:28 Gene Heskett
wrote:
Humm, now ancient memories are floating to the surface of my 80 yo wet
ram.
I think I may have a box in the garage, an old HP of some sort, that
may have the version needed, IIRC its Hardy Heron installed? I'll
have to clear off some of the midden heap on the workbench under it,
hook up a monitor & see if it still boots. That would give me a
version number to look for. I had originally set it up as an internet
radio receiver for Pandora, but one of us didn't have a big enough
pipe to make it work well, or the 1Ghz Athlon in that box was too
slow, so its been a good 5 or 6 years since it was powered up.
This may have to simmer on the back burner for a few days as its
coming up on tax time here in the states plus I have a sump pump
install in progress in the basement. First things first IOW.
I'll check back in when I can confirm the kcalc version that still had
it.
Thanks Tim, and Slávek.
Cheers, Gene Heskett Hi all;
I did solve the previous complaint about the TDE version of kcalc
losing its binary input and bitfield display, by making two links
in the menu's, one to the old KDE kcalc, and one to the TDE kcalc.
But I/we have another problem. Back around kubuntu 6.04 LTS time,
kcalc had a pair of menu macros to do inch to metric, and metric
to inch.
By ubu 10.04 LTS, those disappeared, apparently never to be seen
again.
Whats chances those could be resurrected for the R14.2 version of
TDE?
Surely the older codebase still exists someplace, and for us who
live in both worlds as I was in electronics for 55 years of my
working life, and that pair of macro's were, while they existed,
handier than bottled beer & sliced bread in keeping the two
measurement worlds on the same page around my piece of this
planet. But now its gone. Sniff...
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Actually, I tried now kcalc in Ubuntu 8.04 and I see no difference
from kcalc in TDE R14.0.x.