I've been looking through the old thread concerning ARM tools for the empeg, but have had no luck getting the editor binary out of the .deb package. Does anyone have a binary for a small text editor (and dependencies, if any) that runs on the player? If it's small enough, could this be included with the developer image?
Thanks,
Jason

_~= Dearing =~_
"WAY too happy about having #99."

Did you try running "alien" on the package? It's a wonderful thing that can convert between RPM, DEB, and a TGZ file. Thats what I did a while back when I was putting files on my empeg.

Usage: alien [options] file [...]
file [...] Package file or files to convert.
-d, --to-deb Generate a Debian deb package (default).
Enables the following options:
--patch= Specify patch file to use instead of automatically
looking for patch in /var/lib/alien.
--nopatch Do not use patches.
--single Like --generate, but do not create .orig
directory.
-r, --to-rpm Generate a RedHat rpm package.
--to-slp Generate a Stampede slp package.
-t, --to-tgz Generate a Slackware tgz package.
Enables the following option:
--description= Specify package description.
-i, --install Install generated package.
-g, --generate Unpack, but do not generate a new package.
-c, --scripts Include scripts in package.
-k, --keep-version Do not change version of generated package.
-h, --help Display this help message.
-v, --version Display alien's version number.

I've gotten ae to work. I'll post the files as soon as I can get to
them...

Otherwise a .deb file is quite a simple structure; 2 .tar.gz files
(one with the data and one with control stuff) packed into one 'ar'
file. Why they chose ar instead of another tar file beats me...

Unpack with 'ar -x [package].deb' then use tar on the data.tar.gz file
created (gunzip first if you don't have GNU tar) IIRC WinZip handles
.tar and .tar.gz files.

Here's the ae binary

and the /etc/ae.rc file

and finally the /etc.ae/fn.rc

(I'm not certain that this one is necessary...)

Thanks for the files, but I'm getting an error:
ae: error in loading shared libraries: libslang.so.1: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory
I put ae in /bin, ae.rc in /etc, and fn.rc in /etc.ae .
I guess I need the slang library?
Thanks,
Jason


_~= Dearing =~_
"WAY too happy about having #99."

Language libs (libs lang)

One of the few remaining Mk1 owners... #00015

I just use the evils-tiny that comes on the base2_2.tgz file that comes with debian/ARM..

attached is the file

12gig red mk2 -- 080000125

Language libs (libs lang)
Nice try, Rob.
libslang provides an API for the terminal device. It takes care of dialogs, windows, menus and such. Like turbo-vision in the old days, but different...
Anyway, you will probably miss some more, so I copied my empeg's lib dir...

Frank van Gestel

Hmm I thought libslang was involved in ae, but as I looked I couldn't
find it on my empeg and thought I was mistaken - guess I need to look
closer...

Great resource you published there Frank!

/Michael