Dreamcard under Mandrake Linux 10.1

Tue Nov 16 14:44:26 EST 2004

On Nov 16, 2004, at 1:53 PM, Emmanuel Yves wrote:

> Hi Franck,
>
> Thank you very much for your answer.
>
> You're right : I finally have let rev files in my home directory : I 'm
> not keen on changing writable rights on /opt directory ...
>
> In order to launch Revolution_Dreamcard executable, I also have created
> an executable file launcher (dream) in the same location
> (/home/emmanuel) :
>
> Created with the Vi editor, it launches the command
> /opt/Revolution_Dreamcard-2.5/revolution_dreamcard.sh
>
> and, of course, I have made a chmod +x command on this file.
>
> Otherwise, I'd like to know if it's possible to define in Dreamcard
> the /home/emmanuel directory as rev files directory by default, or,
> eventually, see to it that by clicking on (or, by typing in a terminal)
> *.rev files it launches automatically the revolution_dreamcard player. 
> I
> hope you'll understand what I want to say, my english language isn't
> really perfect :-(

I don't know about setting a default save directory (maybe someone else 
can pitch in here?), but as far as opening .rev files when 
double-clicked and from the terminal:

 From the terminal, you will need to specify the name of the file as a 
command line argument to the Dreamcard program.  So change your "dream" 
shell script to run this instead:

/opt/Revolution_Dreamcard-2.5/revolution_dreamcard.sh $1

This will have no effect when you just run the "dream" script w/o 
command line arguments, but if you specify the name of a stack, it will 
hand that off to Dreamcard, requesting that it be opened.  So now you 
can type something like this:

dream myStack.rev

to open the stack.

For double-clicking, that depends on what desktop environment you use 
(KDE, GNOME, etc.).  You should probably look it up in the docs from 
that environment (they all seem to keep track of this differently).

>
> In all cases, thank you very much for your help
>
> Have a good afternoon ;-)
>
> Cordially
>
>                        Emmanuel Yves
>
>
>
>
>
> Le mardi 16 novembre 2004 à 09:25 -0500, Frank D. Engel, Jr. a écrit :
>> On Nov 16, 2004, at 4:26 AM, Emmanuel Yves wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm French and new user of Dreamcard that I have discovered and 
>>> bought
>>> the past week.
>>>
>>> I have installed it on Linux Mandrake 10.1 with the rpm built and it
>>> works perfectly.
>>>
>>> Yet, I have a small problem :
>>>
>>> Since Dreamcard is installed is installed in the /opt directory, and
>>> when I launch it as a single user (not root), I can't create *.rev
>>> files under /opt/Revolution_dreamcard but only in my home directory
>>> (/home/emmanuel etc...).
>>
>> Yes, and this is generally a good thing.  In a multiuser system,
>> allowing users to write into these common directories is asking for
>> trouble.  Since UNIX (and therefore Linux) is designed to easily
>> support multiple users, allowing users to write into this directory is
>> a bad idea.
>>
>>>
>>> So, have I to modify the writable rights of this directory so that 
>>> rev
>>> files may be written in this directory ?
>>
>> If you *really* want to do this, and there won't be a problem with
>> other users of the system (or there are no other users of the system),
>> you can do this from the terminal (note you must execute these 
>> commands
>> as root):
>>
>> This allows all users of the system to write to the directory and all
>> of its subdirectories:
>>
>> chmod -R ugo+w /opt/Revolution_dreamcard
>>
>> Alternately, this changes the owner of the directory and its contents
>> to <username>, and ensures that the owner of the directory can write 
>> to
>> it:
>>
>> chown -R <username> /opt/Revolution_dreamcard
>> chmod u+w /opt/Revolution_dreamcard
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Another question :
>>>
>>> In order to launch Dreamcard, I have to be placed into
>>> /opt/Revolution_dreamcard, and I don't know which command would allow
>>> me to launch it from, for instance, /home/emmanuel in a terminal ?
>>> Have I to create a link towards the executable 
>>> Revolution_dreamcard.sh
>>> ?
>>
>> No, you just need to specify the full path to the binary.  I don't 
>> have
>> Rev for Linux, so fill in the rest of the name here, but if (for
>> example) the binary is stored in /opt/Revolution_dreamcard, and is
>> named Revolution_dreamcard, then start the program with the command:
>>
>> /opt/Revolution_dreamcard/Revolution_dreamcard
>>
>>
>> Alternately, add the directory containing the binary file to your 
>> path.
>>   This depends on the shell you are using; the default under Mandrake
>> should be bash (which is my own preference as well); do this:
>>
>> export PATH=$PATH:/opt/Revolution_dreamcard
>>
>> You will need to do that each time you open a terminal window unless
>> you add the line to .profile or .bash_profile in your home directory
>> (note the dot at the start of the filename -- that will cause the 
>> files
>> to be hidden in most cases.)
>>
>>>
>>> Finally, I think Dreamcard (and Revolution) are very good products,
>>> but French users lack of a good documentation in their language. I
>>> hope there will be one.
>>
>> Can't help here -- I type in several languages (Transcript, Pascal,
>> Ada, BASIC, Java...), but I only speak one ;-)
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you very much beforehand
>>>
>>> Cordially
>>>
>>>               M. Emmanuel YVES
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> Frank D. Engel, Jr.  <fde101 at fjrhome.net>
>>
>> $ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
>> $ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
>> John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
>> Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
>> everlasting life.
>> $
>>
>>
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$ ln -s /usr/share/kjvbible /usr/manual
$ true | cat /usr/manual | grep "John 3:16"
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have 
everlasting life.
$

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