Dreamcard under Mandrake Linux 10.1

Emmanuel Yves eyves at club-internet.fr
Wed Nov 17 03:15:26 EST 2004 

Super :-)

That's exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you very much Franck.

Cordially


Emmanuel 


Le mardi 16 novembre 2004 à 14:44 -0500, Frank D. Engel, Jr. a écrit :
> 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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> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 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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