On Tuesday 07 April 2015 17:50:58 Timothy Pearson wrote: Gah, obviously I don't either Tim. Have the older repos at ubuntu, say for 8.04LTS been recycled by now? I would hope not, but lemme see what google upchucks. Looks like the src repo's are the first to go, nothing older than 10.04 LTS and that is at least a version newer. I'll ask on the kubuntu list. Thanks Tim.

On Wednesday 08 of April 2015 00:11:39 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 07 April 2015 17:50:58 Timothy Pearson wrote: > > > 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 > > > > I don't have the Ubuntu source archive from that long ago; if you > > can dig up a working source (I need the source .debs, not the > > binary .debs) it should be trivial to port. > > > > Tim > > Gah, obviously I don't either Tim. Have the older repos at ubuntu, > say for 8.04LTS been recycled by now? I would hope not, but lemme > see what google upchucks. Looks like the src repo's are the first > to go, nothing older than 10.04 LTS and that is at least a version > newer. > > I'll ask on the kubuntu list.

Ubuntu 8.04 == KDE 3.5.9 => kcalc is from source package kdeutils 3.5.9 => see sources in http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/k/kdeutils/

On Tuesday 07 of April 2015 11:58:28 Gene Heskett wrote: Actually, I tried now kcalc in Ubuntu 8.04 and I see no difference from kcalc in TDE R14.0.x.

On Tuesday 07 April 2015 20:45:41 Slávek Banko 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