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Argolance · Posted: Sat 23 Jun 2012, 09:37 Post subject:

Hello,
Tested the latest release of Pfind (5.0): great!
Bravo!
I noticed 2 little things:

(chosen by user)

(from a work session to another)

Best regards.

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6629 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6629 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5524 Location: Ontario

Argolance · Posted: Sun 24 Jun 2012, 03:51 Post subject:

Hello,
Thank you for answering.

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6629 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5524 Location: Ontario

I'm converting pet packages to Porteus Linux distribution.

When converting pfind 5.0 to porteus, I came across
a terminal message at launch time. It said that
rm command doesn't support -d option.
I noticed this line of code at line 353.
I don't know if it's important but I did remove the d option
when I made my final porteus module

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5524 Location: Ontario

I noticed that SVG files are put on graphics format list,
but when trying to open it with a slideshow program
it just stalls (in porteus at least).

Few Slideshow programs support SVG format so
you need to be careful about opening this format

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1538 Location: Ukraine

Dear Don570,

Most GTK apps will load SVG files just fine if GTK contains the appropriate loader in /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders. Check yours out. It should have an entry such as:

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5524 Location: Ontario

One of the nice things about the old Mac operating system(up to 7.5)
was the simple and neat way of finding a file on a hard drive.

Note that you specified the hard drive with a pull down menu.

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vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1538 Location: Ukraine

Dear Don,

Thanks for that little screenshot of old Mac OS7x. It is useful to go back and see what was good about certain systems or programs and then to implement those features again. Newer is not always better and some good things get forgotten. Sad

With kind regards,
vovchik

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5524 Location: Ontario

I'm using the mini_vmac emulator on Puppy linux
mini_vmac site

If anyone is interested, just open the archive below and drag the file
'Disk.iso' on the mini_vmac emulation window which has the blinking
disk icon.

(I've also included the Sys7.0.1 image files in the archive
but these aren't needed)

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-1b018f51.html

dk60902 · Posted: Sat 07 Jul 2012, 17:55 Post subject:

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5524 Location: Ontario

I've given a detailed explanation of Min vMac emulation here.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=639450#639450

Remember that you must find and download an old mac plus ROM
for this method to work. I think you forgot that step. Try here
and put it in the same folder.

The basic instructions are here

http://minivmac.sourceforge.net/doc/start.html

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sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2806 Location: UK

can we please have the option to not only export to text editor, but to append to exported file? I like to perform many searches in one session, and often want all the results of each search added to a single file, opened in the text editor.

ideally this would be possible from the console interface as well, so that a number of pfind commands could be run inside a script - appending all the results to one file.