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Re: Proposition for a Gorm feature Was: Gorm too complex
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Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: Proposition for a Gorm feature Was: Gorm too complex |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:46:45 +0100 (CET) |
> From: "Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf" <Lars.Sonchocky-Helldorf@bbdo-interone.de>
> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 13:38:24 +0100
>
> >> > (ever tried to get a useful diff out of .nibs ? ;-).
> >>
> >> maybe use nibtool to convert the nibs in something readable first?
> >>
> >> Greetings, Lars
> >
> >Well, can nibtool convert back to nib the text form? Otherwise, it
> >would not be usefull to diff and merge the text form (think CVS).
> >
>
> Yes:
>
> Welcome to Darwin!
> [localhost:~] lhelldor% man nibtool
>[...]
> BUGS
> You cannot regenerate a nib file using the output of
> nibtool.
>
> Since nibtool requires the window server to be running so
> it can get font information, you cannot use nibtool when
> logged in to another machine over telnet or logged in
> under console mode.
No. It cannot be used to convert back to nib.
So we can use it to see the differences, but it's useless to merge them.
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