Hi,
The following is a screen shot of netman showing the help window.
http://postimg.org/image/cyumre9pn/
Edward
On 20/10/2015, richard white <rwhite8282@???> wrote:
> Hi Edward,
>
> I don't know anything about that gitlab@??? address. My full
> name is Richard, but I prefer Rich
> (I know there are a lot of Rich Whites in the world, sorry for the
> confusion).
>
> I'm am the one with the merge request from
> https://git.devuan.org/rwhite/netman and the one that sent some connection
> icons to you.
>
> Nothing wrong with either the void** or the modulo 2 code, but here's my
> reasoning.
>
>
> - I prefer avoid generic types(void*) when ever possible because it
> reduces casting and allows a user of a framework to know exactly what
> they're getting. Plus the compiler can be smarter about error checking
> also.
> - For the modulo 2 loop: I was thinking you could perform a second fgets
> inside the loop to get the second line and avoid the z % 2 decision.
> This
> might eliminate the z variable management all together. I'm not that
> familiar with the file format you are processing here.
>
> Thank you for all your hard work,
>
> Rich
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:
>
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> Are you the same person who sent me an email with this address:
>> gitlab@????
>>
>> As one is named Rich and you are named Richard and your surname is
>> both White, I am in doubt whether it is the same person to whom I am
>> writing.
>>
>> If you are the same person, please tell me which files from your merge
>> request you want me to integrate in netman's source tree.
>>
>> I would also like to inform you that I edited the backend's C code to
>> compile without warnings. My error was I was not using the -Wall
>> compiler option and nobody indicated to me that I should have been
>> using it. However, I didn't remove the void** variable you suggested
>> as that is a very powerful way to represent any data type; therefore
>> it is not a mistake, but rather, the use of a powerful way of
>> representing data. I also want to ask, what is 'wrong' with the
>> modulo-2 statement and why you want it removed?
>>
>> Edward
>>
>> On 19/10/2015, richard white <rwhite8282@???> wrote:
>> > Edward,
>> >
>> > I created some man pages for the frontend and backend in my netman
>> branch.
>> >
>> > They'll probably need some editing to get them right, but it's a start
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > -Rich
>> >
>> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi All,
>> >>
>> >> I have written a text help file for the frontend and backend. The help
>> >> file is attached to this email.
>> >>
>> >> I will also add descriptions of some algorithms used in netman GUI and
>> >> backend.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Edward
>> >>
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>> >>
>> >
>>
>
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