Move some pages, remove others that are either out of date or whose content is duplicated somewhere else.

15 files changed, 3 insertions, 548 deletions

diff --git a/unsorted/ABITransitionStatus.mdwn b/unsorted/ABITransitionStatus.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index 123e8f8c..00000000
--- a/unsorted/ABITransitionStatus.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-Several transitions have occured recently.
-
-* [ABI Switch](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2002/debian-hurd-200204/msg00096.html) from April 17, 2002
-
-* [Phase I accomplished](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2002/debian-hurd-200204/msg00157.html) from April 26, 2002
-
-* [status of the ABI transition](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2002/debian-hurd-200205/msg00242.html) from May 15, 2002
-
--- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 15 May 2002
diff --git a/unsorted/AdvancedGrubUsage.mdwn b/unsorted/AdvancedGrubUsage.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e307b4f..00000000
--- a/unsorted/AdvancedGrubUsage.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-## <a name="Advanced_Grub"> Advanced Grub </a>
-
-[Grub](http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/) is a capable boot loader. This document is intended to capture some of its most interesting features and try to explain them a bit better than the texinfo documentation.
-
-### <a name="Debian_Grub"> Debian Grub </a>
-
-The Debian grub packages do not have networking enabled, so you have to apt-get the source, modify the debian/rules file to include --enable-network-card and dpkg-buildpackage to get a .deb of grub that supports TFTP.
-
-1. cd /usr/src/debian
-2. apt-get source grub
-3. cd grub-\_VERSION\_
-4. Add `--enable-tulip` or similar for your NIC to the `./configure` line of the `configure-stamp` target in the `debian/rules` file.
-5. `dpkg-buildpackage` (as `root`)
-6. `cd ..`
-7. `dpkg -i grub*.deb`
-8. cp /lib/grub/\_ARCH\_/\* /boot/grub/, e.g., _ARCH_ is `i386-pc`
-9. Edit your `/boot/grub/menu.lst` (see below)
-10. If your boot disk is `/dev/hda` ==&gt; `grub-install (hd0)`
-
-### <a name="TFTP_Boot"> </a> TFTP Boot
-
-Using trivial ftp to load a kernel is one of the best features of Grub. Here is how it is done.
-
-The `menu.lst` can look something like this:
-
-    ifconfig --address=192.168.1.2 --server=192.168.1.1
-    root (nd)
-    kernel /gnu/boot/oskit-mach.gz root=device:hd0s2 --
-    root (hd0,1)
-    module /hurd/ext2fs.static                              \
-           --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line}  \
-           --host-priv-port=${host-port}                    \
-           --device-master-port=${device-port}              \
-           --exec-server-task=${exec-task}                  \
-           -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume)
-    module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create)
-
-**Note: Make sure there are NO spaces after the trailing backslases (\\)!!**
-
-For more information on GNUmach modules lines and installation setup, see [[Hurd/InstallNotes]]
-
--- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - 13 Apr 2005
diff --git a/unsorted/AptConfOffline.mdwn b/unsorted/AptConfOffline.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index c4cc85be..00000000
--- a/unsorted/AptConfOffline.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-    APT
-    {
-       /* This file belongs in Debian GNU/Hurd's /etc/apt/apt.conf.offline
-          and will be used when running Debian GNU/Linux.  This is only
-          required when the GNU/Hurd does not have network access. */
-
-       Architecture "hurd-i386";
-
-       Get::Download-Only "true";
-    };
-
-    Dir
-    {
-       /* Use the disc for state information and redirect the status file from
-          the /var/lib/dpkg default
-          assumes Debian GNU/Hurd mounted on /misc/hurd and /var mounted underneath this if necessary */
-
-       // State::lists should be here, the lists subdirectory.
-       State "/misc/hurd/var/lib/apt/";
-       State::status "/misc/hurd/var/lib/dpkg/status";
-
-       // Binary caches will be stored locally
-       Cache::archives "/misc/hurd/var/cache/apt/archives/";
-       Cache "/tmp/";
-
-       // Location of the source list.
-       Etc "/misc/hurd/etc/apt/";
-    };
diff --git a/unsorted/BootProcess.mdwn b/unsorted/BootProcess.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index 17f7bba7..00000000
--- a/unsorted/BootProcess.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-Describes the GNU/Hurd boot process.
-
-# <a name="Bootloader"> Bootloader </a>
-
-[GRUB](http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/) (GRand Unified Bootloader) is the default (and as far as I know the only supported ) bootloader for GNU/Hurd and is the initial process.
-
-GRUB can be used for booting multiple Operating Systems on a given machine. Device naming convention for GRUB is different than that of the Hurd. Where the first partition on the primary IDE drive in GNU/Hurd is hd0s1, in GRUB it is (hd0,0). In the case of GNU/Hurd, the first thing that GRUB loads is kernel image.
-
-Here is a copy of GNU/Hurd multi-user entry from menu.lst. The first two lines are primarily informational and are what get displayed on the GRUB boot menu.
-
-    # Entry 2:  1st partition on first HDD
-    title  GNU/Hurd (IDE 1st partition - hd0s1 multi-user)
-    root   (hd0,0)
-    kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd0s1
-    module /hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} \
-                               --host-priv-port=${host-port}                   \
-                               --device-master-port=${device-port}             \
-                               --exec-server-task=${exec-task}                 \
-                               -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume)
-    module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create)
-
-**_N.B. the escaped new lines above should end in only a back slash, no spaces!_**
-
-The line "root (hd0,0)" tells GRUB where to look for the root partition. Notice that the (hd0,0) is using GRUB naming conventions.
-
-The next line loads the gnumach kernel image itself. Notice here the root=device:hd0s1 argument. This is now using GNU/Hurd device naming convention, telling the Hurd where the root partition exists.
-
-----
-
--- [[Main/BarryDeFreese]] - 29 May 2003
-
-Minor formatting and edit check.
-
-On a side note. The actual description of the GNU/Hurd boot process is a good idea but keeping duplicated information to a bare minimum must be the guide line for a "book" like this. See other topics for more information on Grub configuration for instance.
-
--- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - 30 May 2003
diff --git a/unsorted/GNOME.mdwn b/unsorted/GNOME.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index 1dbef091..00000000
--- a/unsorted/GNOME.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-![gnome-hurd.png](http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/media/gnome-hurd.png)
-
-GNOME can now be ported with the new [[Pthreads]], but is still being worked on.The packages are at
-
-deb <http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/hurd-gnome/> ./
-
-The caveats:
-
-Some applications are not yet built, not even all the ones from gnome-core. 'apt-get install gnome-applets gnome-control-center gnome-icon-theme gnome-panel gnome-session metacity nautilus scrollkeeper' (along with the above APT source) should get you started.
-
-See also: [[Xfree86]].
diff --git a/unsorted/GrubNotes.mdwn b/unsorted/GrubNotes.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index b0b1fdf5..00000000
--- a/unsorted/GrubNotes.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-This section complements the [[InstallNotes]] with complete information regarding the GRUB boot loader. The syntax is different from Lilo's and so to scratch my own itch I'm creating this quick reference. The [Grub manual](http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html) is another good reference.
-
-* update-grub is **Debian specific** and very nice. It will automatically create a /boot/grub/menu.lst file for the kernels in /boot/. It will also append a manually configured set for other partitions like the GNU/Hurd.
-* grub-floppy is a **Debian specific** boot floppy creation script.
-* mkbimage is a **Debian specific** boot disk image creation script.
-* <http://khazad.dyndns.org/packages/grub-disk/> contains a Debian packaged makefile for creating CD &amp; floppy images. Looks like it doesn't work properly. If you fix it, please send patches to the maintainer.
-* essential GRUB commands &amp; disk syntax
-  * root
-  * kernel
-  * module
-  * boot
-* sample file
-
-    title      GNU/Linux
-    root       (hd0,11)
-    kernel     /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 root=/dev/hda12 ro
-    initrd     /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18
-    savedefault
-
-    title      GNU
-    root       (hd0,15)
-    kernel     /boot/oskit-mach root=device:hd0s16 --
-    module     /hurd/ext2fs.static                              \
-               --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line}  \
-               --host-priv-port=${host-port}                    \
-               --device-master-port=${device-port}              \
-               --exec-server-task=${exec-task}                  \
-               -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume)
-    module     /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create)
-    savedefault
-
-    title           DOS
-    rootnoverify    (hd0,0)
-    chainloader +1
-
--- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 01 Oct 2002 <br /> -- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 22 Dec 2002
-
-Another example, just as good, but a lot easier to read. The backslash at the end of each line is to "escape" the enter-key. So make sure there are no spaces following the backslashes!
-
-    title GNU/Linux (Linux 2.4.18)
-       root            (hd0,11)
-       kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 root=/dev/hda12 ro
-       initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18
-       savedefault
-
-    title GNUmach 1.3
-       root (hd0,1)
-       kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd0s2
-       module /hurd/ext2fs.static --readonly                  \
-              --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} \
-              --host-priv-port=${host-port}                   \
-              --device-master-port=${device-port}             \
-              --exec-server-task=${exec-task}                 \
-              -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume)
-       module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create)
-
-    title GNUmach 1.90 (CVS)
-       root (hd0,1)
-       kernel /boot/oskit-mach.gz root=device:hd0s2 --
-       module /hurd/ext2fs.static --readonly                  \
-              --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} \
-              --host-priv-port=${host-port}                   \
-              --device-master-port=${device-port}             \
-              --exec-server-task=${exec-task}                 \
-              -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume)
-       module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create)
-
-Note the differences between GNUmach and OSKit-Mach. The latter **needs** the two dashes after the root specification!
-
--- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - 09 Nov 2002
diff --git a/unsorted/InstallNotes.mdwn b/unsorted/InstallNotes.mdwn
index 49dcd53d..1cdfca9c 100644
--- a/unsorted/InstallNotes.mdwn
+++ b/unsorted/InstallNotes.mdwn
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ You can always install GRUB onto your hard drive at a later date.
 
 For instructions on using GRUB, see either the info documentation or the quick reference notes on this wiki:
 
-* [[Distrib/GrubNotes]] - quick reference
+* [[GRUB]] - quick reference
 
 ## <a name="4_Cross_Install_Cross_Installing"> </a> 4. Cross Install - Cross Installing GNU
 
diff --git a/unsorted/InstallTips.mdwn b/unsorted/InstallTips.mdwn
index a735fbf7..c9f5bdc2 100644
--- a/unsorted/InstallTips.mdwn
+++ b/unsorted/InstallTips.mdwn
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ now mount the floppy and copy the files to your partition
 
 you may also wish to put my menu.lst file in your grub directory which can be obtained here <ftp://firethroat.com/hurd/menu.lst> you will need to edit it to include a -s at the end of the line starting with kernel. Be sure modify the partition numbers, my system is using the third partition of the second harddrive.
 
-More detailed samples for grub config files can be found at the [[GrubNotes]]
+More detailed samples for GRUB config files can be found at the [[GRUB]] page.
 
 To install grub reboot using the grub floppy and issue:
 
diff --git a/unsorted/LuisBustamanteHurdPage.mdwn b/unsorted/LuisBustamanteHurdPage.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index abbf1531..00000000
--- a/unsorted/LuisBustamanteHurdPage.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-Nothing much to see right now, I'll add some stuff I'm working in the near future! :)
-
-Cheers,
-
--- [[Main/LuisBustamante]] - 16 May 2002
-
-After making some trivial/incorrect patches (thanks Neal :) for building um-pppd with gcc 3.0.4 in Debian (see [\#147085](http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=147085&repeatmerged=yes)) this weekend I'll finally give it a try, I got an external modem... anyway serial drivers seem to be broken in GNUmach iirc, I won't get much more than 300b/s :).
-
-Keep Hurding!
-
--- [[Main/LuisBustamante]] - 17 May 2002
diff --git a/unsorted/NewMachHistory.mdwn b/unsorted/NewMachHistory.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index 562d1cac..00000000
--- a/unsorted/NewMachHistory.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# <a name="Table_of_Contents"> Table of Contents </a>
-
-%TOC%
-
-# <a name="Early_beginnings"> Early beginnings </a>
-
-GNUMach is based on Mach4 from University of Utah, which in turn is based on Mach3 from Carnegie-Mellon University. The last release of Mach4 was the [UK22 release](http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/mach4-i386/html/mach4-UK22.html).
-
-The oskit-mach version of GNU Mach was presented in November 1999 by Roland McGrath. <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/1999-November/003554.html> The purpose of the port was to get better hardware support through new drivers and platform code available in the OSKit.
-
-On May 27 2002, after the Gnumach 1.3 release, Roland McGrath merged OSKit-Mach onto the HEAD of CVS making it the Gnumach 2.x mainline.
-
-# <a name="Status_of_the_project"> Status of the project </a>
-
-GNU Mach 1.3 was released in May 2002, and features advanced boot script support, support for large disks (&gt;= 10GB) and an improved console.
-
-GNU Mach is used as the default microkernel in the GNU/Hurd system. It is compatible with other popular Mach distributions. The device drivers for block devices and network cards are taken from Linux 2.0.x kernel versions, and so a broad range of common hardware is supported.
-
-However, the Linux device drivers have been improved greatly since the 2.0.x version, and a new version of GNU Mach based on the OSKit library is being worked on, which uses newer drivers and in general has cleaner machine specific support code.
-
-----
-
-Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA
-
-Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.
-
--- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - 24 Oct 2002
diff --git a/unsorted/OskitMach.mdwn b/unsorted/OskitMach.mdwn
index c28f2d89..b5b92d68 100644
--- a/unsorted/OskitMach.mdwn
+++ b/unsorted/OskitMach.mdwn
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ First you need to get the latest OSKit release and, preferrably, the latest CVS
 
 ## <a name="Starting"> Starting </a>
 
-You start Oskit-Mach almost the same way as the old 1.x version of GNUmach. Using [[Hurd/GrubNotes]] an entry can look like this:
+You start Oskit-Mach almost the same way as the old 1.x version of GNUmach. Using [[GRUB]] an entry can look like this:
 
     title GNUmach 1.90 (CVS)
        root (hd0,1)
diff --git a/unsorted/PppDaemon.mdwn b/unsorted/PppDaemon.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index f667d449..00000000
--- a/unsorted/PppDaemon.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-There is no PPP solution present for the Hurd.
-
-* Filed Debian [um-ppp bug](http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no\&bug=147085)
-* Clemmitt [asked about um-pppd](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-hurd/2002-October/006664.html) in this thread of 9 posts beginning Oct 10, 2002.
-
--- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 20 Oct 2002
diff --git a/unsorted/TranslatorExamples.mdwn b/unsorted/TranslatorExamples.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c2e5741..00000000
--- a/unsorted/TranslatorExamples.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-## <a name="Introduction"> Introduction </a>
-
-Translators are probably the most known feature of the Hurd, the first thing you should show when doing a demo.
-
-## <a name="run"> run </a>
-
-Couldn't manage to compile it, but allows you to do nice things with eg. fortune.
-
-## <a name="ftpfs"> ftpfs </a>
-
-hurd:~# settrans -c ftp /hurd/ftpfs 128.101.80.131:/
-
-hurd:~# cd ftp
-
-hurd:~/ftp# ls
-
-debian debian-archive lost+found
-
-hurd:~/ftp# cd debian
-
-hurd:~/ftp/debian# ls
-
-README README.mirrors.txt doc ls-lR.patch.gz
-
-README.CD-manufacture README.non-US indices pool
-
-README.html README.pgp ls-lR project
-
-README.mirrors.html dists ls-lR.gz tools
-
-hurd:~/ftp/debian# cp README ~
-
-hurd:~/ftp/debian#
-
-You have to specify the server address with its IP, or your computer will buy a farm or something.
-
-## <a name="ftpfs_and_hostmux"> ftpfs and hostmux </a>
-
-currently (28/02/2004) not working, but should be.
-
-hurd:~# settrans -c ftp /hurd/hostmux /hurd/ftpfs /
-
-hurd:~# cd ftp
-
-hurd:~/ftp# cd ftp.debian.org
-
--bash: cd: ftp.debian.org: Computer bought the farm
-
-hurd:~/ftp# host ftp.debian.org
-
-ftp.debian.org A 128.101.80.131
-
-ftp.debian.org A 208.185.25.38
-
-hurd:~/ftp# cd 128.101.80.131
-
--bash: cd: 128.101.80.131: Computer bought the farm
-
-## <a name="Articles_about_translators"> Articles about translators </a>
-
-* [The GNU Hurd - Translators by Gael le Mignot](http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/pres-en/html/node8.html)
diff --git a/unsorted/TranslatorPages.mdwn b/unsorted/TranslatorPages.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e954521..00000000
--- a/unsorted/TranslatorPages.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-<dl>
-  <dt>[[NeighborHurd]]</dt>
-  <dd> A concept possible with microkernels. </dd>
-  <dt>[[InteractiveTranslators]]</dt>
-  <dd> Translators that interact with user </dd>
-  <dt>[[TranslatorExamples]]</dt>
-  <dd> Examples of what you can do with translators </dd>
-  <dt>[[TranslatorWishList]]</dt>
-  <dd> Interesting file translator ideas </dd>
-</dl>
-
-Here are the translators that currently exist:
-
-* [[AuthTranslator]]
-* [[CrashTranslator]]
-* [[ExecTranslator]]
-* [[ExtTwofsTranslator]] - (actually named ext2fs) Ext2 filesystems, also ext2fs.static
-* [[FifoTranslator]] - also [[NewfifoTranslator]] (actually named new-fifo)
-* [[FirmlinkTranslator]]
-* [[FtpfsTranslator]] - ftp as a filesystem
-* [[FwdTranslator]]
-* [[HelloTranslator]] - also [[HellomtTranslator]] (actually named hello-mt)
-* [[HostmuxTranslator]]
-* [[IfsockTranslator]]
-* [[InitTranslator]]
-* [[IsofsTranslator]]
-* [[KbdTranslator]]
-* [[MachdefpagerTranslator]] - (actually named mach-defpager)
-* [[hurd/translator/magic]]
-* [[MouseTranslator]]
-* [[NfsTranslator]]
-* [[NullTranslator]]
-* [[PasswordTranslator]]
-* [[PfinetTranslator]] - also [[PflocalTranslator]]
-* [[ProcTranslator]]
-* [[SmbfsTranslator]]
-* [[StoreioTranslator]]
-* [[StreamioTranslator]]
-* [[SymlinkTranslator]]
-* [[TermTranslator]]
-* [[TmpfsTranslator]]
-* [[UfsTranslator]] - also ufs.static
-* [[UsermuxTranslator]]
-
-Here are the contributed translators:
-
-* [[CryptTranslator]] - <http://www.trek.eu.org/devel/hurd/crypt-trans-0.0.3.tgz>
-
-This is an old list and might need some updating, please check if you have a Hurd system that this list is accurate.
-
--- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 03 Mar 2004
diff --git a/unsorted/TranslatorWishList.mdwn b/unsorted/TranslatorWishList.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index 38bd87d9..00000000
--- a/unsorted/TranslatorWishList.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,193 +0,0 @@
-## <a name="Introduction"> Introduction </a>
-
-The idea behind file system translators is a powerful concept which hasn't recieved much attention in the mainstream computing world. So here is a list of interesting translators I've been able to dream up. I'm sure there are many more ideas floating around out there, so add them to the list!
-
-The [ferris project](http://witme.sourceforge.net/libferris.web/features.html) has some great ideas and code in the area of userspace dynamic filesystems, as has the [FUSE project](http://fuse.sourceforge.net/).
-
-## <a name="Audio_cdfs"> Audio\_cdfs </a>
-
-A translator which produces a directory of \*.wav files when you have an audio CD in the drive.
-
-## <a name="Ogg"> Ogg </a>
-
-This translator could be a sub-directory of the Audio\_cdfs translator and it would translate the \*.wav files into Ogg Vorbis/MP3 format.
-
-## <a name="CDDB"> </a> CDDB
-
-Of course it would be a lot nicer if the above two translators didn't name their files something worthless like track001.ogg. So we would want a translator which would hook up with a database on the web and produce meaningful file names.
-
-## <a name="Crypto"> Crypto </a>
-
-A cryptographic/steganographic seem like a nice match with the concept of user-land file systems. I like the idea of something like `settrans -a /secure stegfs --mpeg file001.mpg`
-
-## <a name="Revision_control"> Revision control </a>
-
-All of the empty space on your drive is now being wasted. Why not have a revision control translator which tracks changes to your documents? See also [this guy](http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5976). And then you'd do something like `cd /time-machine/2003/sept/14/` to see what your system looked like on the 14th of septempber 2003.
-
-## <a name="CVSFS"> </a> CVSFS
-
-See [cvsFS for Linux](http://cvsfs.sourceforge.net/). This provides a package which presents the CVS contents as mountable file system. It allows to view the versioned files as like they were ordinary files on a disk. There is also a possibility to check in/out some files for editing. A read-only version has been written by Stefan Siegl and is available at [Berlios](http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/cvsfs4hurd/cvsfs/).
-
-## <a name="tar_and_gzip"> tar and gzip </a>
-
-Rumor has it that they are on the way. Actually, a tar + gzip/bzip2 translator does exist (although it hasn't been used much...) : see [the Hurdextras project](http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/hurdextras/) on Savannah.
-
-## <a name="ROM"> </a> ROM
-
-How about a translator which makes it look like you can write to read only media (like CDs), or change files which I don't have permission to change. This translator would make it seem like you could copy files to places where you normally couldn't. Think about combining this translator with the ftp translator and the tar and gzip translators. (cd /ftp/gnu.org/gnome.tar.gz/writes\_allowed; make install). It could be that unionfs does this very thing.
-
-## <a name="Super_FIFO"> Super\_FIFO </a>
-
-It's like a named pipe which is smart enough to start a process everytime something new tries to read from it. For example, let's say I have a script that reads in a JPEG image and spits out a smaller thumbnail \*.jpg to STDOUT. With a standard fifo (`mknod -p fifo`) this would almost works (`script big.jpg > fifo`). But what if there are two processes trying to read the fifo at once? Ick. And of course the standard way only works once without rerunning the command. I'm not quite sure what the syntax should look like, but I'm sure someone out there has a great idea waiting to happen.
-
-## <a name="Perl"> Perl </a>
-
-Perl is a wonderful language for hacking together something useful in a short amount of time. No concept is complete without being able to use it in a perl one-liner. And that goes for Hurd translators too. Right?
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-    #!/usr/bin/perl
-    use Hurd::translator;
-
-    #file named "two" can produce an endless supply of twos, etc. (a la /dev/zero)
-    my $i=0;
-    for $filename ([zero one two three four])
-    {
-       $libtrivfsread_codehash{$filename}=
-                sub{ $num_bytes=shift; my $data=$i; return chr($data) x $num_bytes; };
-       #that's a hash of references to closures
-       $i++;
-    }
-    translator_startup();
-
-A Perl translator has been started by [John Edwin Tobey](http://john-edwin-tobey.org/Hurd/) (pith).
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-## <a name="Source_code"> Source code </a>
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-Here's a crazy thought. How about a translator for source code. You have a C source file like `hello.c` which is your normal everyday file. But there's a translator sitting underneath, so when you `cd hello.c` you get a directory with files like `main()` which represent the subroutines in `hello.c`. And of course you should be able to edit/remove those and have it modify the original source.
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-## <a name="Libraries"> Libraries </a>
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-Here's an [idea](http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/fusd/docs/node13.html) from the people making [userspace drivers in Linux](http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/fusd/):
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-* "One particularly interesting application of FUSD that we've found very useful is as a way to let regular user-space libraries export device file APIs. For example, imagine you had a library which factored large composite numbers. Typically, it might have a C interface--say, a function called `int *factorize(int bignum)`. With FUSD, it's possible to create a device file interface--say, a device called `/dev/factorize` to which clients can `write(2)` a big number, then `read(2)` back its factors.
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-* This may sound strange, but device file APIs have at least three advantages over a typical library API. First, it becomes much more language independent--any language that can make system calls can access the factorization library. Second, the factorization code is running in a different address space; if it crashes, it won't crash or corrupt the caller. Third, and most interestingly, it is possible to use `select(2)` to wait for the factorization to complete. `select(2)` would make it easy for a client to factor a large number while remaining responsive to other events that might happen in the meantime. In other words, FUSD allows normal user-space libraries to integrate seamlessly with UNIX's existing, POSIX-standard event notification interface: `select(2)`."
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-## <a name="Mail"> Mail </a>
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-Am I off my rocker, or does an IMAP/POP translator sound like a good idea? It would make your remote mail servers look like local ones. Or what about a translator that makes a mbox format mail spool look like a directory. Can anyone think of a good use for an SMTP translator?
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-## <a name="UUEncode"> </a> UUEncode
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-How about a UUEncode translator for those places you can only store ASCII. Combine this with a NNTP translator and store your data in someone's Usenet archive. Or since, (as far as I know), there are no size limitations on file names in the Hurd, why not have a filesystem translator whose underlying store is a file name. (Now ls becomes cat).
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-## <a name="Computation"> Computation </a>
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-This is from the revenge of the command-line department. Make a directory translator whose contents are a result of the computation specified in the directory name. Here's an example...
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-    $ settrans -a /comp /hurd/computationfs
-    $ cd "/comp/3+4"
-    $ ls -l
-    total 0
-    -rw-r--r--    1 nobody     users           0 Oct 16 11:41 7
-    $
-    $ cd "/comp/sqrt(2)"
-    $ ls -l
-    total 0
-    -rw-r--r--    1 nobody     users           0 Oct 16 11:42 1.4142135623731
-    $
-
-...etc. Now think about your favorite GUI HTML editor and using File-&gt;Open on the following directory name, ``"/comp/for i in $( find / -name *.html ); do ln -s $i `basename $i`;done"`` Which would produce a directory listing with soft links to all of the \*.html files on your system. You could have all of the comforts of the shell from within that little File-&gt;Open dialog box.
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-## <a name="Other"> Other </a>
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-Just found Wolfgang J�hrling's translator [wishlist](http://www.8ung.at/shell/trans.html).
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-## <a name="Bochs"> Bochs </a>
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-A translator which works with [Bochs](http://bochs.sourceforge.net/) disk images would be nice.
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-## <a name="Rollover"> Rollover </a>
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-A translator that uses a circular buffer to store log files. The translated node only contains the last N (mega,kilo)bytes.
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-## <a name="Birthday"> Birthday </a>
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-A translator that provides an interface into the birthday program.
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-You can cat your calendar, eg. bd/calendar/today bd/calendar/this-week or bd/calendar/this-month.
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-And you could write new events into files located in bd/events/DATE/event-name.
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-DATE is of the format the birthday expects DD/MM/YYYY.
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-The contents of the file are any or none of the following birthday options: ann (An anniversary), bd (A birthday), ev (Some other event), wN (Warn N days in advance of date), toDATE (Event lasts until this DATE), forDAYS (Event runs for DAYS).
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-You can optionally just edit the bd/birthdays file if you want to edit the configuration file by hand. It might make sense to write changes from bd/birthdays into ~/.birthdays.
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-    $ settrans -c bd /hurd/birthday -f ~/.birthdays
-    $ ls bd/
-    birthdays  calendar  events
-    $ find bd -print
-    bd
-    bd/calendar
-    bd/calendar/daily
-    bd/calendar/this-week
-    bd/calendar/this-month
-    bd/events
-    bd/birthdays
-    $
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-## <a name="LVM"> </a> LVM
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-A translator to access block devices from Linux's [Logical Volume Management](http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/) would be an useful addition.
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-    # settrans -cap /dev/VolumeGroup0 /hurd/lvm /dev/PhysicalVolume0 /dev/PhysicalVolume1 ...
-    # ls /dev/VolumeGroup0/
-    home
-    var
-    # settrans -cap /home /hurd/ext2fs /dev/VolumeGroup0/home
-    # settrans -cap /var /hurd/ext2fs /dev/VolumeGroup0/var
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-Probably both [LVM2](http://sourceware.org/lvm2/) and the [Device-mapper](http://sourceware.org/dm/) need to be ported.
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-## <a name="bridging_translator"> bridging translator </a>
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-A [bridging](http://bridge.sourceforge.net/faq.html) translator could improve the Hurd's networking facilities.
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-    # settrans -cap /dev/br0 /hurd/bridge -i eth0 -i eth1 ...
-    # settrans -cap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i /dev/br0 -a ... -g ... -m ...
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-Perhaps Linux's bridging code and [utilities](http://bridge.sourceforge.net/) can be ported (or glued in) or code from one of the BSDs.
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-## <a name="SSH_translator"> </a> SSH translator
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-Presenting remote file systems through SSH similar to what gnome-vfs does.
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-## <a name="SMB_translator"> </a> SMB translator
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-Presenting remote file systems through Samba similar to what gnome-vfs does. Guiseppe Scrivano has worked on this and smbfs is available at [hurdextras](http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/hurdextras/smbfs/).
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-## <a name="Crontab_translator"> Crontab translator </a>
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-Presenting a user's crontab in a filesystem where cron entries are files.
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-## <a name="globlink"> globlink </a>
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-Firmlink to a file according to a filename matching pattern. When a file goes away, the next file that is matched is automatically linked to.
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-    $ settrans -ac libfoo.so /hurd/globlink '/lib/libfoo*'
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-## <a name="alphabetfs"> alphabetfs </a>
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-Organize a large group of files by their first letter. Present one subdirectory for each letter in the alphabet.
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-## <a name="fsysoptsctl"> fsysoptsctl </a>
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-Send an fsysopts command to a set of translators. When you have a directory full of translators and you want to send each of them the same runtime option, this translator can do it for you.
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-    $ settrans -ac all /hurd/fsysoptsctl '/tmp/mystuff/*'
-    $ fsysopts all --update
-
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--- [[Main/GregBuchholz]] - updated 17 Oct 2003