On Tuesday 07 April 2015 22:46:42 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 April 2015 20:45:41 Slávek Banko wrote:
> > On Tuesday 07 of April 2015 11:58:28 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > Hi all;
> > >
> > > I did solve the previous complaint about the TDE version of kcalc
> > > losing its binary input and bitfield display, by making two links
> > > in the menu's, one to the old KDE kcalc, and one to the TDE kcalc.
> > >
> > > But I/we have another problem.  Back around kubuntu 6.04 LTS time,
> > > kcalc had a pair of menu macros to do inch to metric, and metric
> > > to inch.
> > >
> > > By ubu 10.04 LTS, those disappeared, apparently never to be seen
> > > again.
> > >
> > > Whats chances those could be resurrected for the R14.2 version of
> > > TDE?
> > >
> > > Surely the older codebase still exists someplace, and for us who
> > > live in both worlds as I was in electronics for 55 years of my
> > > working life, and that pair of macro's were, while they existed,
> > > handier than bottled beer & sliced bread in keeping the two
> > > measurement worlds on the same page around my piece of this
> > > planet. But now its gone.  Sniff...
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >
> > Actually, I tried now kcalc in Ubuntu 8.04 and I see no difference
> > from kcalc in TDE R14.0.x.
>
> Humm, now ancient memories are floating to the surface of my 80 yo wet
> ram.
>
> I think I may have a box in the garage, an old HP of some sort, that
> may have the version needed, IIRC its Hardy Heron installed?  I'll
> have to clear off some of the midden heap on the workbench under it,
> hook up a monitor & see if it still boots.  That would give me a
> version number to look for.  I had originally set it up as an internet
> radio receiver for Pandora, but one of us didn't have a big enough
> pipe to make it work well, or the 1Ghz Athlon in that box was too
> slow, so its been a good 5 or 6 years since it was powered up.
>
> This may have to simmer on the back burner for a few days as its
> coming up on tax time here in the states plus I have a sump pump
> install in progress in the basement.  First things first IOW.
>
> I'll check back in when I can confirm the kcalc version that still had
> it.
>
> Thanks Tim, and Slávek.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Possibly we don't need it. "convertall", while klunky to run because of 
its huge 2 pane mode selection menu's, would appear to be capable of 
doing all those pesky conversions.

I'll get me coat & go take a nap now.  Thanks all.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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