David Woolley's Home Page

These pages currently contain information on Unix (particularly Linux) basic software, particularly mail, news and time software and also some software for processing morse code. See below for some notes on technical aspects of the pages.

What's currently available:

Linux and Other Unix Patches: Patches to make generic versions of common Unix software work with Linux, together with some more generally applicable, but not yet in the official version, patches.
Work in Progress: Things I've been working on, but which are not really in what I would consider a useable state.
PGP Keys: My public keys

Linux and Other Unix Patches

Linux versions have been tested against a basically Slackware 2.1 system, but with kernel 1.2.13.

CNews Linux Patch

Patches to make the CR.G release of CNews work with Linux, bash and gawk. (PGP)

nntp Linux Patch

Patches to make version 1.5.12.1 of the reference implementation of NNTP work with Linux. Several people have reported success with these. They are derived from the Slackware patches for earlier versions. (PGP)

Network Time Protocol Stuff

My Patches to the Network TIme Protocol daemon, version 3.5f from the University of Delaware to:

Work in Progress

This software is under development, although development may have stopped indefinitely. Please do not expect to receive any support in its use, although I will try to give short answers to questions about the design of it.

fftmorse: This is an enhanced port of the original FFTMORSE morse code decoder to the DJGPP 32 bit compiler for MS-DOS. It is still not very good at handling noisy signals, but does work correctly with the SoundBlaster Pro 2. The file here is in RCS format, but the most recent version can easily be extracted with a text editor. (PGP)

Public Keys

My public keys. Note that I do not expect to receive encrypted mail as a matter of course. These keys are only as trustworthy as the access control on the website; you should try to obtain independent verification and/or establish a chain to them in the web of trust, before using them for any critical purpose.

Contact Information

I can be contacted by Email at david@djwhome.demon.co.uk.

Technical Aspects of these Pages

PICS

Originally this had a PICS label. Unfortunately I misunderstood that the labels refer to ratings services, not systems, even though, in my view RSAC only provide a system. This has now been removed.

My present position on this is that unless Demon can come up with an arrangement that does not require payments to third parties and permits me to leave some pages unrated, or with a fuzzy rating, these pages will be withdrawn when ratings become mandatory. (The reason for the need for fuzzy rules is that I may include third party material on a non-commercial basis, and not have the resources to check the contents of such material for hidden messages.)

Page Design

Don't expect anything fancy in these pages. They aren't designed to stretch the limits of any browsers (in fact, I'd like to know if they break any browser).

Limitations of the Server

These pages are on a server which is bundled into the basic subscription price for Demon's internet access service. As such it has restrictions compared with a commercial web page hosting service. Some of these are:

The MIME types map is fixed and outside my control. This means I may have to modify file extensions, particularly for binary files and there is some risk that a change will break an existing file name. (See Demon MIME types map).
Demon do not provide public ftp access to this site, so you must use an http client. Under Unix you should be able to run lynx -source URL in the background, if you just want to fetch a file. If things seem to be sufficiently popular, I can ask to upload them to Demon's ftp server.
The Demon home pages server doesn't support HTTP/0.9, at the time of writing.

Browser Compatibility

These pages have been verified with MSIE 2.0 (earlier version), Lynx 2.4.2, Lynx 2.5 and Weblint.