rikona wrote:
Hello Anne,
Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 2:43:16 PM, you wrote:
It may be in the docs, but not in a form that is readily accessible
by a simple search.
AW It's an interesting proposition, but not an overnight job, I think g
True. How does one get a group together to
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I used to press ctrl+C, and wondered why linux said that there were stopped
jobs everytime I shutdown it. ;p
It was not long ago that someone told me to press q to quit the man pages ;p
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 07:37 pm, Charles A Edwards
Rather than directing a newbie to the man page, it's often better to
recommend the info page. OK, sometimes there is no info page and
sometimes it's identical to the man page, but frequently they have more
explanation and, most usefully, example commands.
Later, of course, we'll be able to
Hello Anne,
Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 2:43:16 PM, you wrote:
It may be in the docs, but not in a form that is readily accessible
by a simple search.
AW It's an interesting proposition, but not an overnight job, I think g
True. How does one get a group together to develop it?
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Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 9:19 pm, rikona wrote:
Hello Anne,
Monday, September 22, 2003, 12:31:31 AM, you wrote:
AAW Don't want to rain on your parade, rikona, but 'natural
language' AW searches never seemed to give me answers either.
It is VERY likely that your natural
OK In the RUTE manual it says if you're in cli mode, best wya to
powerdown is use three finger salut.
Why not use shutdown or reboot -now?
Is that wise (rutes suggestion..) or out of date?
Anyways, when I've dropped out of X, I always use:
shutdown -h now
Don't know what
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:51:49 -0400
Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:08:00 -0600
Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Heather if you're at the command line interface the best way to
shut down is type:
halt enter
If you just want a reboot type:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:51:49 -0400
Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:08:00 -0600
Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Heather if you're at the command line interface the best way to
shut down is type:
halt enter
If you just want a reboot type:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 01:51:48 -0400
snicks
Peter Schilling lives! grin
Anyways, when I've dropped out of X, I always use:
shutdown -h now
Don't know what others do though
See ya!
--
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 09:06 pm, Heather/Femme wrote:
OK In the RUTE manual it says if you're in cli mode, best wya to
powerdown is use three finger salut.
Why not use shutdown or reboot -now?
Is that wise (rutes suggestion..) or out of date?
ty
Earth to Major Femme!
Peter
You can wrote in .bash_profile
alias name=command
it's simple
alias quit=halt
alias quit2=shutdown -h now
:)
OK In the RUTE manual it says if you're in cli mode, best wya to
powerdown is use three finger salut.
Why not use shutdown or reboot -now?
Is that wise (rutes
Lee Wiggers wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:50:41 +
Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:27 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote:
snip
Note that if you do your nix learning on the newbie list
it may take a few years, and you may bump in to an Aussie
or two, but
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September 24, 2003 09:51 pm, Heather/Femme wrote:
[..]
ty.
but...doesn't tell me if their method is
right/wrong/irrevelevant/dangerous...or what.
Ty
Femmily
It's the same as with nearly anything in GNU/Linux Heather. There is nearly
always
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 02:43, robin wrote:
Nicely put, in fact it should be included in the official fortune
distribution so people are reminded of it on a regular basis.
Sir Robin
Reminded of what?
stephen kuhn - owner
==
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a kuhn
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 16:05, Eric Huff wrote:
I always type use halt
eric
I use poweroff and reboot - they appear to work much more nicer than
plug yank.
stephen kuhn - owner
==
illawarra computer services
a kuhn media australia company
http://kma.0catch.com
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 02:27:18 -0400
Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Giant snip
but...doesn't tell me if their method is
right/wrong/irrevelevant/dangerous...or what.
Ty
Femmily
Irreverent, for sure.
--
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I'm
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 02:20:31 -0600
Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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September 24, 2003 09:51 pm, Heather/Femme wrote:
[..]
ty.
but...doesn't tell me if their method is
right/wrong/irrevelevant/dangerous...or what.
Ty
Femmily
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:04:40 +0200 (CEST)
Pawel Nozderko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can wrote in .bash_profile
alias name=command
it's simple
alias quit=halt
alias quit2=shutdown -h now
:)
OK In the RUTE manual it says if you're in cli mode, best wya to
powerdown is use three
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September 25, 2003 12:26 am, Lee Wiggers wrote:
[..]
I also am interested in the answer. Since installing 9.1, I haven't
been able to shut down without shutdown now or ctl-alt-backspace.
Didn't care because shutdowns are rare here.
Anyway I've
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September 25, 2003 12:47 am, Heather/Femme wrote:
[..]
choice on how to shutdown your comp isn't what I'm after. Just wanna
know if doing ctrl-alt-del will shut it sown cleanly... I know it
doesn't do it clanly for windows. Most often that
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 21:06, Heather/Femme wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:09:20 +0100
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like paper. I print out man pages, HOW-TOs, TWiki pages g and
everything else that seems to help. I buy books, too. I posted a
question about symlinks some time
On Thursday 25 September 2003 12:01 am, Heather/Femme wrote:
whos schilling? lol
I was referring to a Bowie song.
heh
ty
Femme
Ah, my bad - I was thinking about Peter Schillings song Major Tom.
You know, 4 3 2 1, Earth below us, drifting falling... (pardon my singing
voice, its 7:11am
On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 2:06 am, Heather/Femme wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:09:20 +0100
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like paper. I print out man pages, HOW-TOs, TWiki pages g
and everything else that seems to help. I buy books, too. I
posted a question about symlinks some
On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 2:06 am, Heather/Femme wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:09:20 +0100
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like paper. I print out man pages, HOW-TOs, TWiki pages g
and everything else that seems to help. I buy books, too. I
posted a question about symlinks some
On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 7:43 am, Heather/Femme wrote:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 02:27:18 -0400
Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Giant snip
but...doesn't tell me if their method is
right/wrong/irrevelevant/dangerous...or what.
Ty
Femmily
Irreverent, for sure.
--
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On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 15:51, robin wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 9:19 pm, rikona wrote:
Hello Anne,
Monday, September 22, 2003, 12:31:31 AM, you wrote:
AAW Don't want to rain on your parade, rikona, but 'natural
language' AW searches never seemed to give me
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 14:15, Franki wrote:
Lee Wiggers wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:50:41 +
Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:27 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote:
snip
Note that if you do your nix learning on the newbie list
it may take a
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 03:09:25 -0600
Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/Snip
No, it should not do any harm. If you watch the system you'll see that
it will go through a normal reboot cycle using that shortcut.
C.
- -
ty :)
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:47:05 -0700
Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 14:15, Franki wrote:
Lee Wiggers wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:50:41 +
Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:27 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote:
On 24 Sep 2003 05:30:42 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Maybe the helpful answerers expect things too.
Someone suggested [I'm sorry, I don't know who - Evolution is acting
up again: emails open up with blank windows - but that's a topic for
another thread] that I try locate, but
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 1:37 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:18:10 +0100
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OTOH, I had been dutifully opening a console and using su to do
maintenance jobs, but closing it to return to user. It was a
year later before anyone
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 10:04, Charlie M. wrote:
[...snip snip]
I'll accept the apology if you'll accept mine, then we'll call it even and
start over. OK? (-:
Even.
Sounds good to me.
Thanks, Charlie.
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups --
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:18, Anne Wilson wrote:
snip
OTOH, I had been dutifully opening a console and using su to do
maintenance jobs, but closing it to return to user. It was a year
later before anyone actually mentioned that if you type 'exit' you
don't need to close it :-)
Anne
Or
On September 23, 2003 10:41 pm, dlwiggers wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:17:58 -0700
John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On September 23, 2003 01:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
Thank you for a great exposition of adult learning. Why
*should* it be more painful than this? Is it just to
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:03:12 -0700
John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On September 23, 2003 10:41 pm, dlwiggers wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:17:58 -0700
John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On September 23, 2003 01:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
Thank you for a great exposition of
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 2:45 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote:
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:18, Anne Wilson wrote:
snip
OTOH, I had been dutifully opening a console and using su to do
maintenance jobs, but closing it to return to user. It was a
year later before anyone actually mentioned that
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:27 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote:
snip
Note that if you do your nix learning on the newbie list
it may take a few years, and you may bump in to an Aussie
or two, but sooner or later it all comes here.
Lee
Auusies aren't so bad. They're just
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September 24, 2003 07:00 am, Merlin Zener wrote:
[..]
I'll accept the apology if you'll accept mine, then we'll call it even
and start over. OK? (-:
Even.
Sounds good to me.
Thanks, Charlie.
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:50:41 +
Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:27 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote:
snip
Note that if you do your nix learning on the newbie list
it may take a few years, and you may bump in to an Aussie
or two, but sooner or
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 12:50, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:27 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote:
snip
Note that if you do your nix learning on the newbie list
it may take a few years, and you may bump in to an Aussie
or two, but sooner or later it all comes here.
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September 24, 2003 07:06 pm, Heather/Femme wrote:
[..]
OK In the RUTE manual it says if you're in cli mode, best wya to
powerdown is use three finger salut.
Why not use shutdown or reboot -now?
Is that wise (rutes suggestion..) or out of
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:09:20 +0100
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like paper. I print out man pages, HOW-TOs, TWiki pages g and
everything else that seems to help. I buy books, too. I posted a
question about symlinks some time ago because I had followed the
instructions in the
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:08:00 -0600
Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Heather if you're at the command line interface the best way to shut
down is type:
halt enter
If you just want a reboot type:
reboot enter
It may all be outdated but it still works. It's what I use the rare
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 08:09 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 11:02 am, HaywireMac wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:13:07 -0700
John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
By the same logic you seem to suggest tossing a nonswimmer into
the 20 foot end of a pool and say
On September 22, 2003 07:40 pm, yankl wrote:
vicously clear cuts a whole forest of words
I do not think that we need to embrace every person who like to switch to
linux. (I see the stones flying in my direction but bare with me for a
second) The *NIX OS is designed for responsible people,
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 7:43 am, John Wilson wrote:
long snip
This is how adults learn. And this is how I teach them and have
done so for 15 years. Hook em first then throw the dense stuff at
them. This is how you and I learn, too.
At the moment I deeply regret not having the time to come
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:47:09 -0600
Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Smells like protecting the noobs from themselves and I find that
slightly distasteful.
It's their equipment, if they want to screw it up let them.
I will disagree however that RTFM is ever a good stand alone
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:43:33 -0700
John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
In fact any OS should be designed for responsinle persons. The fact
is that our favourite whipping boy is designed that way too, then sold
as an OS for morons. You get what you market to. :-)
big huge ditto.
--
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:24:19 +0100
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
Thank you for a great exposition of adult learning. Why *should* it
be more painful than this? Is it just to protect an elite?
even bigger ditto.
--
HaywireMac
Registered Linux user #282046
Homepage:
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 03:47, HaywireMac wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:43:33 -0700
John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
In fact any OS should be designed for responsinle persons. The fact
is that our favourite whipping boy is designed that way too, then sold
as an OS for morons. You
--- Original Message ---
From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 03:47, HaywireMac wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:43:33 -0700
John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
In fact any OS should be designed
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 03:25:39 -0700
Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 03:47, HaywireMac wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:43:33 -0700
John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
In fact any OS should be designed for responsinle persons.
The fact is that our favourite
Hello Anne,
Monday, September 22, 2003, 12:31:31 AM, you wrote:
AAW Don't want to rain on your parade, rikona, but 'natural language'
AW searches never seemed to give me answers either.
It is VERY likely that your natural language search was nothing at
all like what I am proposing. Just because
Hello yankl,
Monday, September 22, 2003, 5:51:31 PM, you wrote:
y I think my point was not taken properly. I am sorry it probably my
y English (it not even my second language more like fourth).
You are doing very well, then.
y My point was that people should make a research first and then try
Hello yankl,
Monday, September 22, 2003, 7:40:28 PM, you wrote:
y The *NIX OS is designed for responsible people, are we agree on
y this?
One can be VERY responsible and know nothing about the jargon. Many
want it as TOOL, not as a hobby/living/etc. The best tools work well,
and are very easy
Hello John,
Monday, September 22, 2003, 11:43:33 PM, you wrote:
JW In the early NIX world where the folks hacking away on the system
JW were C programmers talking to C programmers
It is more like: Cpgmrs tlk w cp hkg awy @ t sym. I remember a
magazine that used to publish a puzzle each month.
Hello Anne,
Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 1:24:19 AM, you wrote:
AW Any offers?
How about a good 'help system'? I'd be willing to contribute.
AW It's a challenge, really g
Yes, it will certainly be a challenge. :-)
How about a help-system list, maybe?
--
rikona
Hello Aron,
Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 3:25:39 AM, you wrote:
AS RTFM OK but the real newbie is having trouble finding TFM
Gee - I thought I was the only one with that problem. :-)
--
rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Want to buy your Pack or Services from
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 9:48 pm, rikona wrote:
Hello Anne,
Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 1:24:19 AM, you wrote:
AW Any offers?
How about a good 'help system'? I'd be willing to contribute.
AW It's a challenge, really g
Yes, it will certainly be a challenge. :-)
How about a help-system
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 9:19 pm, rikona wrote:
Hello Anne,
Monday, September 22, 2003, 12:31:31 AM, you wrote:
AAW Don't want to rain on your parade, rikona, but 'natural
language' AW searches never seemed to give me answers either.
It is VERY likely that your natural language search was
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 13:31, Charlie M. wrote:
[...snip]
If you don't want to answer questions then don't. That's simple enough. Just
don't try to discourage others from freely sharing what they've learned.
Please.
But before someone can realistically expect a total newbie to be able
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 13:49, rikona wrote:
Hello Aron,
Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 3:25:39 AM, you wrote:
AS RTFM OK but the real newbie is having trouble finding TFM
Gee - I thought I was the only one with that problem. :-)
Took me six months to figure out that when a browser opened
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 02:43 am, John Wilson wrote:
snip
John (who keeps hoping that by flogging this dead horse it will get up and
win the Triple Crown)
/snip
John sorry by by your logic you set a person, with no previous knowledge, in
a car and tell him to drive. Not only that, but
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September 23, 2003 04:30 pm, Merlin Zener wrote:
Hi Charlie.
I emailed you offlist to apologize but it bounced; I hope you don't mind
me taking this opportunity to do it publicly.
[for those that missed it, or came in late, I sent a rather hasty
On September 23, 2003 06:07 pm, yankl wrote:
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 02:43 am, John Wilson wrote:
snip
Oh my. :-)
John sorry by by your logic you set a person, with no previous knowledge,
in a car and tell him to drive. Not only that, but you put him in the
middle of car rally. Before
On September 23, 2003 01:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
Thank you for a great exposition of adult learning. Why *should* it
be more painful than this? Is it just to protect an elite?
Way way back there was a computer priesthood. Computers were these strange
things that took up whole floors and
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:17:58 -0700
John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On September 23, 2003 01:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
Thank you for a great exposition of adult learning. Why
*should* it be more painful than this? Is it just to protect an
elite?
Way way back there was a
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:30:25 -0700
rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello yankl,
Whack's Stephen upside the head! oops...
Sorry to spoil your rant. :-)
--
rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LOL nice going Rikona!
hehe sorry but thats hilarious!
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 9:03 pm, rikona wrote:
Hello Richard,
Sunday, September 21, 2003, 3:03:45 AM, you wrote:
RU apropos doesn't work because the man pages call it y.
Yep - another part of the problem. M$ help suffers from the same
problem, although their overall integration of help is a
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 9:03 pm, rikona wrote:
Yep - another part of the problem. M$ help suffers from the same
problem, although their overall integration of help is a step in
the right direction. Newbies can describe the question in 'natural
language', which is unfortunately not the language
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 22:57, rikona wrote:
Hello yankl,
Sunday, September 21, 2003, 5:36:27 PM, you wrote:
y hence the end of my e-mail man -k. Have any one done their home
y work?
Yes, but it was not very helpful, as I mentioned.
y By typing #man -k lilo one can see what command it
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 02:41, Heather/Femme wrote:
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:30:25 -0700
rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello yankl,
Whack's Stephen upside the head! oops...
Sorry to spoil your rant. :-)
--
rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 03:47, Aron Smith wrote:
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 22:57, rikona wrote:
Hello yankl,
Sunday, September 21, 2003, 5:36:27 PM, you wrote:
y hence the end of my e-mail man -k. Have any one done their home
y work?
Yes, but it was not very helpful, as I mentioned.
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:31:31 +0100
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 9:03 pm, rikona wrote:
Yep - another part of the problem. M$ help suffers from the same
problem, although their overall integration of help is a step in
the right direction. Newbies can describe
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 02:31, Charlie M. wrote:
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September 21, 2003 11:57 pm, rikona wrote:
Hello yankl,
y hence the end of my e-mail man -k. Have any one done their home
y work?
Yes, but it was not very helpful, as I mentioned.
y By
On 22 Sep 2003 06:41:39 -0400
ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snips... eds parts :)
LOL nice going Rikona!
hehe sorry but thats hilarious!
FemmesAnAxeMurderer
O... No, she doesn't have a very strange sense of humor,,, no,,,
nothing like that,,,
But I like it
ET
On Monday 22 September 2003 07:51 pm, Heather/Femme wrote:
On 22 Sep 2003 06:41:39 -0400
I think my point was not taken properly. I am sorry it probably my English (it
not even my second language more like fourth).
My point was that people should make a research first and then try to ask
On Monday 22 September 2003 09:19 pm, Charlie M. wrote:
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September 22, 2003 06:51 pm, yankl wrote:
On Monday 22 September 2003 07:51 pm, Heather/Femme wrote:
On 22 Sep 2003 06:41:39 -0400
I think my point was not taken properly. I am sorry
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September 22, 2003 08:40 pm, yankl wrote:
[..]
Thanks for correcting me, it is rant. The spell check some time can be an
evil creature.
I was having a bit of fun Yankl.
kidding
The use of the word seemed possibly appropriate given that line in
On Monday 22 September 2003 11:47 pm, Charlie M. wrote:
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September 22, 2003 08:40 pm, yankl wrote:
[..]
Thanks for correcting me, it is rant. The spell check some time can be an
evil creature.
I was having a bit of fun Yankl.
kidding
The
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 3:53 am, yankl wrote:
On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:39 pm, HaywireMac wrote:
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:31:14 -0400
yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
whack
ROTFLMAO!
Ok, back to reality, you just wasted 5 minutes of your life you
will never get back... ;-)
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 8:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
Yank, man pages are great once you have a bit of experience under the
belt. For a true newbie, many ar totally inpenetrable.
Agreed, but I'm not a newbie and IME, man pages are almost useless for
how do I do x. apropos doesn't work because the
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 06:00, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Sunday 21 September 2003 03:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
Yank, man pages are great once you have a bit of experience under the
belt. For a true newbie, many ar totally inpenetrable.
Anne
Exactly. What was it that somebody said once?
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 3:22 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
** The one thing that Programmers are NOT good at is Documentation.
That's why Tech Writers exist (unfortunately the good ones find out
that writing Science Fiction pays better :-( ).
As a programmer:
Documenting a program is a good and
Richard Urwin wrote:
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 3:22 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
** The one thing that Programmers are NOT good at is Documentation.
That's why Tech Writers exist (unfortunately the good ones find out
that writing Science Fiction pays better :-( ).
As a programmer:
Documenting a program
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 7:37 pm, David Filion wrote:
Richard Urwin wrote:
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 3:22 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
** The one thing that Programmers are NOT good at is
Documentation. That's why Tech Writers exist (unfortunately the
good ones find out that writing Science Fiction pays
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 7:37 pm, David Filion wrote:
Richard Urwin wrote:
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 3:22 pm, Aron Smith wrote:
** The one thing that Programmers are NOT good at is
Documentation. That's why Tech Writers exist (unfortunately the
good ones find out that writing
Hello Richard,
Sunday, September 21, 2003, 3:03:45 AM, you wrote:
RU On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 8:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
Yank, man pages are great once you have a bit of experience under the
belt. For a true newbie, many ar totally inpenetrable.
RU Agreed, but I'm not a newbie and IME, man
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:39:22 -0400
HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:31:14 -0400
yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
whack
ROTFLMAO!
Ok, back to reality, you just wasted 5 minutes of your life you will
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Agreed. Plus Man
On Sunday 21 September 2003 06:03 am, Richard Urwin wrote:
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 8:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
Yank, man pages are great once you have a bit of experience under the
belt. For a true newbie, many ar totally inpenetrable.
Agreed, but I'm not a newbie and IME, man pages are
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:36:27 -0400
yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 21 September 2003 06:03 am, Richard Urwin wrote:
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 8:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
Yank, man pages are great once you have a bit of experience under
the belt. For a true newbie, many ar totally
A lot of the questions posted in this group could be avoided if people would
read man pages. And yes I understand that it is mostly newbies group. This is
why I like to tell people how to use man pages.
Man page, from word man(uale).
From command prompt type word man followed by command you
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:31:14 -0400
yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
whack
ROTFLMAO!
Ok, back to reality, you just wasted 5 minutes of your life you will
never get back... ;-)
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On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:39 pm, HaywireMac wrote:
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:31:14 -0400
yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:
whack
ROTFLMAO!
Ok, back to reality, you just wasted 5 minutes of your life you will
never get back... ;-)
I donate this 5 minutes to the FSF/OSS foundation.
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