Dale Scheetz writes: > >On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Aaron Denney wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' <infile >outfile >> > >> > and although the file gets slightly smaller (I didn't try to find out just >> > what had been removed) none of the hyphonated text is corrected. >> >> This isn't quite the appropriate venue for such questions, as it is >> a general unix/sed question and not very specific to Debian. In the >> future try the newsgroup comp.unix.programmer or comp.unix.questions. > >You are absolutely correct, and as a developer I should probably know >better. My only excuse is that I spend a lot of time on this list, and >consider the folks here my friends. This leaves little time to go >exploring other venues, and besides, I'd rather ask a favor of a friend >than of some stranger somewhere else ;-) > >Personally, I find the "off topic" threads on this list are often very >interesting. I almost always learn some new twist or trick that I had not >seen before, so it is my hope that, when I have problems, the solution may >be valuable to others as well. >
Not to start this thread again about on/off topic, splitting the lists, etc., but if all the non-Debian specific traffic was removed from this list there would be almost no traffic at all. I agree with Dale that I learn lots of great stuff by reading this list and its non-Debian specific topics. Really the only Debian specific traffic is stuff relating to package management/policy, dselect/dpkg, filesystem structure and third party .deb packages. After you have installed the packages it technically becomes a non-Debian specific problem. But who cares! As long as it can run under a Debian system I don't mind seeing traffic about it. My $0.02(us), Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .