Pat's Home Page

Thanks to Freeserve for providing the internet connection and the web space for this. There is a US mirror of the canoe stuff at Geocities .

Baby Pictures

Penny and I had a baby girl - Catherine - on the 8 June 1999 at 4.23am. There are various pictures of her in the album here.

Pat's Canoe Guide

I have written whitewater canoeing guides for the French Alps and for Corsica. The canoe stuff is all here.

Programs

This is where is publish any potentially useful program I might have produced. most of these are written for Linux but one or two are more generally applicable. All these programs are published under the GNU General Public License

• XawRadio: a program to control an ISA radio card from Linux with a command line interface and an X Windows interface.
• sbmixer: command line program to control the volume settings for Sound Blaster cards using the Linux kernel interface.
• tcpdump -D patch: patch to tcpdump-3.3 to add a -D option that dumps the data from a packet as ASCII characters. Very basic, but easy to improve on.
• loginhost: short C program to find the address of the remote host and provide it for setting DISPLAY upon login.
• mitcookie: generate a MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 for use with xauth. See the source.
• unibasic.el: an Emacs major mode for editing UniBasic source code. Unibasic is the scripting language used by the unidata database which is pretty much a unix PICK emulator. This major mode might work for PICK basic as well, but this hasn't been tested.
• ifup.c: inform your script whether a Linux network interface is up or down.
  e.g.: if [ `ifup ppp0` ]; then echo "PPP is UP!"; fi or ifchecking ppp0 5 for a tck/tk version.
• .emacs: my .emacs file which is used for FSF Emacs and XEmacs on both Linux, HP-UX, AIX and Win32 systems. Hence it is a little complicated. Some functions have been moved into patfunc.el to allow them to be byte-compiled and reduce the startup time.
• Gcc COM: a sample COM object written to be compiled using the mingw32 version of gcc-2.8.x for win32. Written in C++ the server code includes a C++ client and a C client and uses a template class for the Class Factory code. The whole lot can be obtained as a tar file.
• Tcl and SOAP: I have been trying out the Simple Object Access Protocol from Tcl using the xml and dom packages to help with the XML generation. As part of this I have a SOAP package that wraps up SOAP RPC method calls and implements the methods as Tcl commands. The package is at Sourceforge and the documentation is at http://tclsoap.sourceforge.net

These pages are maintained by Pat Thoyts. You can find out about me on my contact page.