Subj : Re: Polling - Still not a solution
To   : rick christian
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Wed Oct 26 2016 11:31 am

Hello rick,

On 25 Oct 16 17:49, rick christian wrote to mark lewis:

 ml>> while i tend to agree with some of your statements, it should be
 ml>> pointed

 rc> My view point on compiling has been honed from many, MANY, *MANY*
 rc> failed instances of it... and this situation has proven nothing
 rc> different.

 rc> For you compiling is easy peasy... GREAT!

 rc> Plain and simple.. I only ever had ONE positive situation like that,
 rc> where 100% of the steps were spelled out, ONE!

 rc> We are not going to agree on compiling, its way off topic here, the
 rc> main issue I've resolved with playing with command lines,which I had
 rc> tested already. I don't know what the issue is with regards to why
 rc> changing one line in the config fubard it up.. but...

 rc> -nP x

 rc> -pP x

 rc> No work here.

 rc> -p -P x

 rc> WORKS!

What Mark is trying to say is that this issue of yours may have already been 
resolved. The DEB package you speak of is quite old compared to the latest 
code. This is FTN, there isn't a dedicated person (or persons) in the what's 
left of FTN programming to make DEB packages, or send it over to Archlinux's 
AUR for easy install through a package manager. If you want the latest code of 
any FTN software still in active development, you will most likely have to 
compile it yourself.

 rc> is not pleasant, and from that you learn DON'T REPEAT IT! And I don't.

If you choose to report bugs from a DEB package that is probably more than a 
decade old, and get told it was already fixed 9+ years ago, don't complain that 
the DEB package wasn't updated to reflect that bugfix, since you indeed have 
the option to fix it on your own.

Regards,
Nick

.... "If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried."
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