On Monday 14 December 2020 01:14:32 Rafael Skodlar wrote: > On 12/12/20 1:41 PM, John Dammeyer wrote: > >> From: Nicklas SB Karlsson [mailto:nk@nksb.online] > >> > >> To make a link to a file "ln -s filename filename", read manual > >> page "man ln", I always create the link in the wrong direction > >> first time. > > > > Oh gawd, that would mean using the command line. How antiquated is > > that when the File manager drop down menu and dialogs do it for you? > > > > <GRIN> > > > > John > > Example for file name linking would be easier to understand this way > ln -s original.file myFileName > > Note that -s means symbolic link that works across the partitions. > > Better yet just use manual pages for linking command > man ln > > NAME > ln - make links between files > > SYNOPSIS > ln [OPTION]... [-T] TARGET LINK_NAME (1st form) > ln [OPTION]... TARGET (2nd form) > ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY (3rd form) > ln [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY TARGET... (4th form) > > There is an excellent file management utility mc (Midnight Commander) > as Gene has pointed out. It allows you to execute, copy, or look into > any kind of file in text or hex mode which your windog crap can't do > with default utilities! A GUI version of mc is krusader (in KDE) with > the same layout.
And the last time I looked at it, it was still missing 75% of mc's capabilities. So bad that tde, forked from kde at about the 3.5 point, and which I've been using on 2 machines here for years, does not include it by default. I saw a file I wanted to delete, but couldn't find a delete button. So I'll still use mc out of habit. It does look improved, but not enough. > Command line rules! Anybody can cut/paste a set of commands to tell > others what to do for a certain effect. Impossible with GUI. What's > also very important is the history of previously executed commands. > You can repeat them or find out where you made a mistake. > > Command line has one other advantage, it tells you names of commands > as soon as you start typing first few letters if you tap Tabs key, > example: l Tab <--- would respond with > Display all 167 possibilities? (y or n) > if you enter "y" then all commands will show up. > > All that Desktop crap is for people with IQ bellow 100 which is what > the internet has come to. The latest trend is to create same > sub-directories in users home directory as in Windows and call the > folders. What's folded??? > > That's total nuts. When the first letter of a directory or a file name > is capitalized you need two fingers to handle it. How is that helpful > to people with one hand or people with poor vision? > > LinuxCNC should work without GUI in the first place. A decent text > based menu should be enough to run most jobs. Original or old CNC > machines have no GUI in the first place! ncurses were invented way > back to create nice menus on text terminals. Clicking on pixel icons > does not add value! > > Enough of Computer literacy 001. > </GRIN> Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
