Month: March 2009

VCS working on FreeBSD

As I wrote on the last update, I've been working on making vcs work on FreeBSD (and hopefully other non-GNU systems), there were quite a few problems that made it unusable outside GNU variants, but it's already working. Sort of: There's still some wrong details: Like instead of or instead of But that's definitely better […]

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VCS Beyond Linux

Before the next release I'd like to make VCS work better in other OSes beyond Linux. Linux is my (current at least) OS of choice and the one I'm not familiar with so it's also obviously the OS in which I develop and test VCS. Thanks to virtualisation gaining a lot of momentum I'm now […]

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VCS 1.0.99 released

New version released, finally implementing DVD support (both ISO and DVD devices should work). Also JPEG 2000 output, a more Polaroid™-like polaroid mode 😉 (the older one has been renamed to photos); the timestamp is now reduced for smaller captures plus the usual batch of fixes/tweaks. DVDs Capturing from DVDs is a bit tricky, the […]

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Script: man2ps, man2pdf, man2evince

Usage: $ man2ps command will generate a PostScript (.ps) file from command's manpage Symlink or copy this script as "man2pdf" to create a PDF from a manpage. Symlink or copy this script as "man2evince" to call evince on a temporary PDF of the manpage #!/bin/bash # man2ps, (c) 2004,2005,2006,2009 Toni Corvera, published under a BSD […]

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