On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > Read `man term` > FYI, "echo `man term`" returns something quite unreadable... Be careful > to use the right quotes next time, for newbies' sake. ;-) I usually use backquotes to signify that something needs to be run (if I don't want to put it on a line by itself, like so $ man term but you're probably right about it not being newbie-safe (though I would doubt that a newbie would have made the connection with the shell's backquotes as you did).
> > and get back to us when you've done that. > > IOW: YOWTHYWT (how do you expect anyone to answer you if you just say > > boo-hoo! it doesn't work!) > > rlc > > (am I as mean as cgf yet?) > Hmm, an aspiring soul, eh? Well, you'd probably qualify as an apprentice. > Besides, cgf has mellowed out recently... :-D Yeah, I noticed. Do you think it's a lack of coffee, beer, ... ? I'm getting worried! ;) rlc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/