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| author | Fritz Elfert <felfert@to.com> | 2001-06-11 09:39:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Fritz Elfert <felfert@to.com> | 2001-06-11 09:39:01 +0000 |
| commit | b7eaf1d89272a8e3d5343ed2975add1bab2d9638 (patch) | |
| tree | 90630070a5743571b0b680f9d382157a9b17257a /patches | |
| parent | 4b0ded71c7f4843023c05ad95c461c5d8ef99d02 (diff) | |
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Corrected some typos
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diff --git a/patches/README b/patches/README index 1796b53..bcea538 100644 --- a/patches/README +++ b/patches/README @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ -The following patches may be applied to other programs to allow them to operate -better with plptools. +This directory provides some patches, i found useful when working with or +developing plptools. +1. MGETTY mgetty-1.1.21-plp.diff is from Christof Meerwald, and adds autodetection support for the PLP-protocol to mgetty - thus mgetty can autodetect a Psion connected to the serial port and execute ncpd (with the autoexit @@ -12,8 +13,15 @@ used the following login.conf for mgetty: /PLP/ - - /usr/sbin/ncpd -d -e * - - /bin/login @ --- MJG +2. KDE libs +In stable kdelibs there is a bug which prevents all kioslaves from delivering +mime-types they know. Although this is fixed in KDE's CVS since some time now, +this fix did not made it into the latest maintenance release of kdelibs (2.1.2) +Therfore, you will _NOT_ see correct icons unless you apply kde-mimetype.patch +to kdelibs/kio/kfileitem.cpp and rebuild kdelibs. All other functionality - +especially that of kpsion and klipsi is _not_ affected. +3. KERNEL 2.2 (DEVELOPMENT ONLY) linux-2.2.18-ttytap.patch is a patch for linux 2.2.18 adding a ttytap feature. It enables you to sniff all data going in/out over a serial line. I use this for sniffing communication between the Psion and a PsiWin running under Win98 @@ -25,5 +33,15 @@ It implements various ioctl's and read. The userlevel program for dealing with it can be found in etc/ttytap.c. Compile that and then run it e.g.: ttytap /dev/ttyS0 +My usual setup for sniffing PsiWin's PLP packets is this: +I have Win98 running under VMware under Linux with COM1 enabled via /dev/ttyS1. +First, i start ttytap /dev/ttyS1 > PsiWinSession.log +Then, i start VMware and in Win98 start PsiWin. Now i perform the actions +in PsiWin which i want to see in the log. After that, if terminate the +ttytap process. Now i have all the data of that session in PsiWinSession.log. +I have done a quickhack on Matt's ncpscope so it can read this file directly. + +4. KERNEL 2.4 (same as above but for kernel 2.4) + -Fritz |