Linux-Misc Digest #716, Volume #27 Wed, 25 Apr 01 19:13:03 EDT
Contents:
The difference in compiling the RPM versus the Binary form ?? (mike)
Re: RAID question. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: How to have an application included in a Linux distribution? (Kevin)
Re: The difference in compiling the RPM versus the Binary form ??
Turbo Pascal+Delphi ("Alexander Kränzlein")
Re: StarOffice & Xfree 4.0.3 (Dave Uhring)
Re: How to get linux to see printer? (Andy Rounds)
Re: Turbo Pascal+Delphi (Bob Tennent)
Re: 1024 limitation ("tvn")
bad pthreads (or some other error)? (bert buchholz)
Re: Unusual mount problem ("paranoia")
Re: Large Hard Drive (Robert Heller)
SuSE Linux installation failure ("Richard L. Enison")
Re: How to change between two file edited by vim?? (Bill Unruh)
Modem test - ("DMcBee")
Re: Modem test -
Re: RAID question. ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: Problem with reading CD-ROM (Christos)
Re: restrict/control the amount of bandwidth used by an application (Dean Thompson)
Re: How to change between two file edited by vim?? (Yvan Loranger)
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The difference in compiling the RPM versus the Binary form ??
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:14:20 -0400
Hi,
I would like to know the pros and cons and differences in compiling
the Linux kernel via using the RPM or the binary.
Thanks
Mike
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.windows98
Subject: Re: RAID question.
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:09:32 +0200
In comp.os.linux.misc Lee Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:45:49 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Allen) wrote:
>>On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:03:42 +0200, "Peter T. Breuer"
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was referring to the forms of RAID which provide redundancy. They
> all do so at some cost in performance, relative to using the same
> number of disks in a non-RAID configuration.
> You are referring to the forms of RAID that combine disk drives to
> increase the usable size of a filesystem. While technically these are
> RAID configurations, they are not what most people mean when they
> discuss RAID, which is 'REDUNDANT Array of Inexpensive/Independent
> Disks'.
> You seem to be intentionally focussing on the atypical RAID
> implementations in order to justify insults.
I don't have to! A person who takes about a week to find a hair to
split in order to justify himself has done the justification. Yes, we
know you have been trying to wriggle towards a posture in which you can
pretend to have been talking about raid1 or raid5 - now that you've
found out what they are? - but I'm afraid that the act convinces me not
at all. Everyone else is talking about raid0. It's the raid that one
uses in order to get superior read and write performance. I have it all
over my disks, and that's rsync mirrored to a slower single copy.
Look, If you want superior read performance only, use raid1. Writes
are slower but you get nontrivial redundancy. If you want to speed
up both read and write, use raid1 over raid0 (hic). Raid5 is slower
both on read and write. Raid10 fixes that.
At least the humble pie has toned down your stridency.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin)
Subject: Re: How to have an application included in a Linux distribution?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:17:07 GMT
I'd try to get that app into Redhat's contrib-net and into
Mandrake's cooker. I don't know what Debian or SuSE offer
that's like those repositories. Maybe you should also
consider trying to get it into FreeBSD?
G'luck....
<rant>
If your app was another library, then I'm sure it would be
included in half of the distributions, after all Linux really
is short on libraries. %-p
Seriously tho, why is it that there are lots of good
applications that aren't well distributed, and others that
need to be written -- anyone else want a better MIDI music
sequencer or tax prep software? It seems like the first
thing a lot of projects do is to write their own library;
seems like tons of duplicated effort.
Enuf sed, I've got to get back to writing my new window
manager from scratch.
</rant>
> I was thinking there was more I could do to bring the application to the
> attention of the organizations and companies that maintain a Linux
> distribution, but perhaps I've done all I can do. The application is being
> used by people, but I think it does not have a large user base, mainly
> because its category - stock charting and technical analysis - is not
> mainstream or well-known.
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
> --
> Jim Cochrane
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Unless otherwise noted, the statements herein reflect my personal
opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: The difference in compiling the RPM versus the Binary form ??
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:26:35 GMT
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:14:20 -0400, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
> I would like to know the pros and cons and differences in compiling
>the Linux kernel via using the RPM or the binary.
>
pros:
binaries are available sooner than RPM's and give you more control over
where files get installed.
cons:
slower.
you should uninstall old RPM's so you don't end up with two versions in
different directories
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From: "Alexander Kränzlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Turbo Pascal+Delphi
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:34:29 +0200
Hello NG!
I have a little problem with p2c!
I don' t know how i will be able to translate Turbo Pascal code, and I don't
know how to translate Delphi programs, too.
Thanks Alex
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: StarOffice & Xfree 4.0.3
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:44:26 -0500
Mike Everett wrote:
> I've just upgraded to Xfree86 version 4.0.3 (to accomodate a new graphics
> card) and now StarOffice causes the machine to lock-up completely - the
> only solution being a reboot. The lock-up happens on the first or second
> mouse action after StarOffice starts. No other program seems to give any
> problems.
>
> I'm running RedHat 7.0 with kernel 2.2.17.
>
> Any ideas please ?
> TIA
>
> Mike
>
I don't see any mouse specific problems mentioned in the patch description,
but you might find a solution by applying patch 109939-02 from Sun.
http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/patch-access
Then enter 109939-02 in the Patch Finder.
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From: Andy Rounds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get linux to see printer?
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:54:09 +0100
There's a RedHat 6.1 Gotcha covering this one. Details from www.redhat.com,
but to save you the trouble of going there, add
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
to your /etc/conf.modules file.
Then run /sbin/rmmod lp, and start printtool.
That should do the trick.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have RH6.1 with the 2.2.12 kernel on a 233mmx box, dual boot with
> win95. I've just hooked up a Desk Jet 500 printer, printtool has this
> model listed (this is one of HP's oldest inkjet printers), but cannot
> autodetect
> the printer. Since it doesn't see the printer (it's on the first
> printer port, lp0), trying test print direct to the port from
> printtool returns an error "no such device". Booting into win95 and
> setting up the printer there and making a test print shows the printer and
> connection are OK.
>
> What do I need to do to get linux to see the printer?
>
>
> -------------------------------------------
> John Meshkoff johnm at sivakalpa dot org
> remove 'johnpipe' in 'From:' to reply
> http://www.sivakalpa.org/johnpipe/
> "I do not know that I know the self fully,
> neither do I know that I know him not"
> ...from the Upanishads
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal+Delphi
Date: 25 Apr 2001 20:39:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:34:29 +0200, Alexander Kränzlein wrote:
>
>I don' t know how i will be able to translate Turbo Pascal code, and I don't
>know how to translate Delphi programs, too.
Use fpc:
The Free Pascal Compiler is a Turbo Pascal 7.0 and Delphi compatible 32bit
Pascal Compiler. It comes with fully TP 7.0 compatible run-time library.
Some extensions are added to the language, like function overloading. Shared
libraries can be linked. Basic Delphi support is already implemented (classes,
exceptions,ansistrings,RTTI). This package contains commandline compiler and
utils. Provided units are the runtime library (RTL), free component library
(FCL), gtk,ncurses,zlib, mysql,postgres,ibase bindings.
or gpc, which supports much of Borland Pascal:
GNU Pascal is part of the GNU compiler family, GNU CC or GCC.
It combines a Pascal front-end with the proven GNU C back-end
for code generation and optimization. Unlike utilities such
as p2c, this is a true compiler, not just a converter.
Bob T.
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From: "tvn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 1024 limitation
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:43:53 -0400
So should I make the /boot on a small partition hda1 - say around 16 MB ?
and put others on the rest of the disk (which is > 10 gigs, on hda5 ?? )
... would that be OK ?
It must be Disk Druid's limitation because my computer is pretty new - just
bought this year February.
Thanks ,
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From: bert buchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bad pthreads (or some other error)?
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:59:13 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi folks,
is there any way to compile the pthreads (aka linuxthreads) seperately from
glibc? It's because when I try to link a programm against phtreads, it
won't work. lipthreads.a and .so are installed, but when I call
libpthreads.so, he will quit with a segfault-error - so I suppose, either
it's a bad compile or there is another problem. Also when trying to compile
something linked dynamically against pthread, I get a whole lotta errors
like as if the linker didn't even see the libs:
/usr/include/pthread.h:141: `pthread_t' was not declared in this scope
/usr/include/pthread.h:141: `__thread' was not declared in this scope
/usr/include/pthread.h:142: parse error before `*'
and so on... actually, it's not my program, but I don't wanna hack the code
and it worked before already, but when I tried to udgrade to glibc-2.2,
some things just didn't work anymore, so I removed it again, but I'm not
sure if I really got everything cleaned.
They are all installed in the usual dirs, like /lib /usr/lib and
/usr/local/lib so I think no problem really here. I looked through
gnu-archives but couldn't find anything like linuxthreads there and on the
web I only found the old 0.7 version, but I need 0.8 at least.
Any help and hints would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance,
Bert Buchholz
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From: "paranoia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unusual mount problem
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:21:10 GMT
to mount a windows drive, first use the file manage and look in /mnt/ for
a windows directory, it probably there. actually in the file system , all
of your drive (zip, cd what ever) are listed in the /mnt directory. if
its not there go to google.com and search for a how to. it not hard, but
i dont recall exactly how to do it
rob
In article <9ai334$58u51$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Optiker"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Davide...
>
> I am a real newbie with Linux so have some very basic questions. I am
> running RH7 and KDE. Linux is dualbooted with Win2000Pro on a Micron 1.2
> GHz Athlon. What do I need to do to be able to read files on my Win2000
> NTFS partition from my Linux partition? When I use File Manager in KDE I
> see several drives mounted - CD, floppy, Zip, but if I insert a Zip
> cartridge, for example, don't see anything on it. I also have a Jaz
> drive that I don't see in File Manager, and I also don't see - or at
> least don't know where to look for - my Win2000 partition.
>
> RH7 was installed by my company's Unix/Linux tech, so I am not really up
> to speed yet on it. He's good, but he's not a teacher.
>
> I haven't done anything about mounting anything that isn't already
> mounted. I've read a little about autofs, but don't really know if it's
> on my machine, or if it is, how to use it. I barely understand the Linux
> file system. I am a pretty experienced DOS/Win user, but never used
> Linux/UNIX before, so am just getting started.
>
> Can you give me any specific instructions as to how to access my Win2000
> partition (and also shared network drives) from Linux? I do understand
> that NTFS is read-only at this time, but that's OK for now.
>
> Thanks!
> Optiker
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9ah1b0$5675b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> In comp.os.linux.setup Dennis Bayrock
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > 2. When I run MC and try to view the same partition - I can't see
>> > ANYTHING (Yes I am navigating to the right place in the filesystem)
>> > 3. When I exit MC and run X (Gnome 1.0) - I still can't see anything
> with
>> > GMC.
>>
>> Well, since it's working in the console I think that the mount is
>> working well. Maybe is a problem related to MC/Gnome, but I can't see a
>> way to solve it.
>>
>> BTW, I have an NTFS partition on my machine and I can see it in KDE, so
>> maybe is a problem of Gnome.
>>
>> Davide
>
>
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large Hard Drive
Date: 25 Apr 2001 21:55:55 GMT
Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:24:03 -0500, wrote :
J> Two quick questions:
J>
J> My BIOS (old Award 4.51pg) only recognizes 8.5 gigs of my new 20 gig
J> drive. Will Linux "see" the entire drive anyway?
Yes. There are some 'gotchas' WRT to booting (see below).
J>
J> What is the best way to partition this? My current partitioning scheme
J> with a 4 gig drive is a swap of 128M and the rest given to /. (yeah, I
J> know--mistake)
J>
J> Since I'm going to re-install new on the 20 gig, what's the
J> recommended partition scheme?
This is what *I* would do:
P# size mount point
1 128M /
2 128M <swap>
3 2G /usr
4 (rest of disk) -- extended:
5 128M /var
6 2-4G /home
7 rest /scratch
The BIOS only needs to be able to deal with partition #1 (where /boot
lives). Linux will deal with the rest once it has booted up.
The sizes of the /home partition and the /scratch partition are pretty
much a matter what you want to do. I would *suggest* that you limit the
/home partition to what you can backup (size of your backup media). You
can optionall chop up scratch into /home2, /home3, etc. all sized to
match your backup media. You *could* make the swap partition larger,
but you probably don't really need to.
If you plan to run a newserver, mail server, or printer server, you
might want to carve out a /var/spool (or /var/spool/news,
/var/spool/mail, and/or /var/spool/lpd of a useful size). If you will
be using postgresql with a *huge* db, your might want to make a
partition for /var/lib/pgsql, although you can just symlink this to
/home/pgsql (this is what I do).
J>
J> Thanks in advance.
J>
J> Jeff
J>
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Reply-To: "Richard L. Enison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Richard L. Enison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE Linux installation failure
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:19:15 GMT
I am a Linux newbie. I am trying to install S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3. I have
failed. The server is a rack-mounted Pentium III 600 MHz system with 256 Mb
RAM, an ATAPI CD-ROM drive, SCSI Adaptec AIC-7896 adapter, SCSI Seagate
ST39175LC Ultra-2-LUD 8683 Mb hard drive, ethernet port built into the
motherboard, SVGA port, 2 serial ports, 1 parallel port, 1 PS2 mouse port
and 1 PS2 keyboard port. Please help me. My supervisor, Michael L. Dean,
has insisted that I send this memo as is.
Richard L. Enison, Programming Consultant
SourceView Corporation
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: How to change between two file edited by vim??
Date: 25 Apr 2001 22:27:50 GMT
In <9c6v2o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Cochrane) writes:
]In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
]Nigel Jewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
]>hushui wrote:
]>>
]>> useing vim .
]>> How to change between two files??
]>> Since I want to copy and past between those two files .
]>> Thank you .
]>
]>Presuming you opened the files doing:
]>
]>vim filename1 filename2
Much much easier is to just open two versions of vim for each file. Ie
open two command windows and open
vim file1
in one window and
vim file2
in the other. Taht way you can copy and paste between the two windows.
This is one of the advantages of Linux over DOS. Doing two things at
once.
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From: "DMcBee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem test -
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:02:52 -0400
How do you invoke a dial tone from the modem from the command prompt? In
dos, you'd use echo ath0 > com2 , but what to use in Linux? ath0 > ttys0 ?
Thanks-
Drew M
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Modem test -
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:53:23 GMT
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:02:52 -0400, DMcBee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do you invoke a dial tone from the modem from the command prompt? In
>dos, you'd use echo ath0 > com2 , but what to use in Linux? ath0 > ttys0 ?
run minicom to see responses from the modem when you issue commands
the hayes command to get a dial tone is 'atd'
try 'atm3' in case the speaker is disabled
'ath' is to hangup.
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.windows98
Subject: Re: RAID question.
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:57:50 -0600
>
> You are referring to the forms of RAID that combine disk drives to
> increase the usable size of a filesystem. While technically these are
> RAID configurations, they are not what most people mean when they
> discuss RAID, which is 'REDUNDANT Array of Inexpensive/Independent
> Disks'.
I don't see what you mean. When someone talks about RAID, I usually take
it to mean that they are referring to any of the "official" RAID levels. I
don't try to assume that they're choosing a particular level, they're all
RAID, no matter what the acronym stands for.
> I was referring to the forms of RAID which provide redundancy. They
> all do so at some cost in performance, relative to using the same
> number of disks in a non-RAID configuration.
The redundancy does have overhead. But if you're looking for speed, then
you go for speed. Take 5 drives, put them in a RAID 5 array. Put 5 drives
in another, equal machine without any form of RAID. The RAID 5 array will
offer more speed reading any single file. If you compare it to reading 5
different files from all 5 drives *at once*, it won't quite keep up - but
that's a pedantic situation. It's not like a database server, web server,
or ftp server is going to split all of the files for a single database
across 5 different disks, trying to guess which files to put on which disks
to try and ensure that it reads as many simultaneously as possible.
(NOTE: I'm using "RAID" to mean just that: "RAID". One of the
"official" RAID levels.)
> You seem to be intentionally focussing on the atypical RAID
> implementations in order to justify insults.
No, he's focusing on what people typicall do in real life - they choose a
RAID level based on their needs. That's why there are different RAID
levels, so that you can choose the one that best suits your situation. RAID
0, 1, and 5 are certainly "typical" RAID implementations, and while 0+1
isn't quite as common, it's certainly "typical".
I really get the feeling that you haven't used a good RAID array before.
Use one once, and you'll never want to go back. Of course, you need to
choose the RAID level that best suits your needs, but that's just common
sense.
steve
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From: Christos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Problem with reading CD-ROM
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 01:00:25 +0300
% ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 5 1999 /dev/cdrom -> hdb
% ls -l /dev/hdb
brw------- 1 siopis disk 3, 64 May 5 1998 /dev/hdb
Looks nice to me, no?
Christos
PS Sorry for delay to reply, was away from home!
Moshe Samuel wrote:
> Christos,
> What output do you get from:
> % ls -l /dev/cdrom
> and from:
> % ls -l /dev/hdb
> ?
> MoSam
>
> Christos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Moshe,
> >
> > Here's what my /etc/fstab looks like:
> >
> > % more /etc/fstab
> > /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 1
> 1
> > /dev/hda5 /boot ext2 defaults 1
> 2
> > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0
> 0
> > /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0
> 0
> > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto,owner 0 0
> > /dev/hda1 /mnt/msdos vfat defaults 0
> 0
> > none /proc proc defaults 0
> 0
> > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0
> 0
> >
> > Does this help any?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Christos
> >
> >
> > Moshe Samuel wrote:
> >
> > > What does your /etc/fstab file look like?
> > > MoSam
> > >
> > > Christos Siopis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > I am having a problem with my CD-ROM drive: it does not read CD-ROMs
> any
> >
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: restrict/control the amount of bandwidth used by an application
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:03:23 +1000
Hi David,
> How can I restrict/control the amount of bandwidth used by an
> application? My problem is that it is difficult to browse the web while
> downloading a file.
You might like to look for a program called "CBQ" which stands for Class Based
Queueing or its older version known as shapecfg. Both of these applications
allow for rules to be applied to the incoming data stream. I am not sure
whether they will operate to the level that you want.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
Subject: Re: How to change between two file edited by vim??
Date: 25 Apr 2001 23:06:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yvan Loranger)
"Chris Coyle" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> "Jim Cochrane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:9c6v2o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Nigel Jewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >hushui wrote:
>> >> How to change between two files??
>> >> Since I want to copy and past between those two files .
>> >
>> >Presuming you opened the files doing:
>> >vim filename1 filename2
>> >do:
>> >:n (for the previous)
>>
>> Actually, :n goes to the next file - e.g., filename2 in the above example.
>>
>> >:p (for the next)
>>
>> This command, from the ex component, simply prints, on the status line,
>> the line the cursor is currently on. I believe that:
>> :N
>> goes to the previous file.
>>
>> >If you have more than two files, :rew moves you back to the start.
>>
>> Correct. (rewind)
>> You can also do, from within vim:
>> :n file1 file2 ...
>> or (for example)
>> :n *.c
>> to load a new file list, and then have the same behavior as above.
>
> Besides all that next and previous stuff, when you're in vi
> you can start editing any other file by using the command
> :e otherfile
> and you can go back by using the command
> :e #
> Once you've done that, you can go back and forth between two files
> with the same command.
All seems more complicated than what I do:
:e file1
:e file2
:e file3
then 2^6 [ie. 2 followed by control-6] jumps me to file2, 1^6 to file1.
But I'm using a PC.
--
Merci........Yvan Pour le plein air: Club Vertige
http://www.ncf.ca/vertige
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