wasnt perl originally developed because some guy couldnt get what he wanted out of awk? oh and i see you use a gpg id. you didnt give the server you uploaded it to so how do i find out its really you? (I just started finding out about gpg today)
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:38:42 +0000, Frank Shute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 05:05:20PM +0200, siraj kutlusan wrote: > > > > i think you understood me wrong. i was looking for a girl for her > > interests not looks. > > Yeah, that's what we all say ;) > > I was largely joking though. All FreeBSDers require a laugh now & then. > > > oh and i have been using FreeBSD for 1.5 years now but i havent been > > very serious with it. oh and i would like to reqest Turkish keyboard > > support on FreeBSD. As I am forced to use it here. I know other people > > have requested it for a while and i dont know why it isnt added > > instead of having to config it all. I could config it but what about > > the Turkish people that want to use FreeBSD for the first time and > > just want the turkish Q keyboard working straight away. > > Basically with any unix you spend a few days getting it configured > which means sorting out your keyboard etc. Unless you buy a unix > machine off a vendor and even then you'd have to tweak it. > > I did my tweaking about 4-5 years ago on this machine. ie. Do it once > and forget about it. When you're more familiar with FreeBSD, you'll > find it fairly straightforward. When I have to do it again (when I get > my next machine), I'll just copy my tweaks over. > > One tweak for you to map your Windows keys and F5 in the console to > something useful: > > kbdcontrol -f 62 "sudo reboot" > kbdcontrol -f 64 "sudo halt -p" > kbdcontrol -f 5 "less " > > and F5 in ~/.Xdefaults: > > XTerm*VT100*translations: #override \ > <KeyPress>F5 : string("less ") > > I suppose you could write a perl script to do all the necessary tweaks > sort of automagically when it's called. ie. It sorts out syscons(4) > via kbdcontrol(1), edits XF86Config, sets $TERM etc. > > Something you could have a bash at if you're keen. It's worth learning > perl if you haven't already. It's a good language for sysadmin along > with shell. > > -- > > Frank > > print "f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k" | sed 's/ //g' > > --->PGP keyID: 0x10BD6F4B<--- > _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"