Request: Text Editor Binary

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