On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 08:20  PM, Ben Reser wrote:

>> I mean that there should be at least one alias that opens for you
>> XFdrake when you run a command like
>> "XConfig" ..
>> Ok, I know that the "tab" button on the keyboad is very useful,
>> but... ;-)
>
> Umm Xconfigurator is just a redhat specific command that some other
> distributions have picked up.  So basically what you're saying is we
> should just always copy redhat which is silly.

nope, I mean that there should be a command like "Xconfigure" that runs, 
according
to the distro, Xconfigurator, XFdrake and so on..

For command I mean what you use to launch a program, not necessary the 
same program,
expecially in the open source world ;-) (imho)

>
>> what is "tail" ?
>
> A program.  man tail for more information.

ok, thanks

>
>> using Mac OS X I don't need them.. but .. in Linux PPC I had to insert
>> them
>> to make it works, on Mandrake linux ppc no way: I can get connected but
>> I can't
>> visit any site or download mail.. (as when you don't insert dns and 
>> they
>> are needed,
>> but i've inserted them, also tryed to disable local dns and other
>> options..)
>
> So do you or don't you have your modem working?

I'm trying to using internal modem for now, and it works. But once 
connected
I can't access to any remote content.

> Just an FYI.  Linux on PPC is not very easy compared to on PC hardware.
> So just get used to the little issues...  you'll have plenty of them.

;)

Bye & Thanks again,
Giovanni


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