Re: z/Linux Oracle question

2011-05-25 Thread Henry E Schaffer
I'm just wondering about quantities of disk space that concern people. Is 30GB noticeable - or in the noise? --henry schaffer -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.

Re: recieving the following from a linux install on z

2011-04-11 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Mark writes: > ... > > And if they're > > running Windows (as I would guess most may be), then wouldn't using X or VNC > > would be equally "difficult" or "easy"? > > Not at all. It's much easier to run vncviewer on Windows than it is to try > and get X running. On Windows PuTTY is easy and do

Re: A little more script help

2010-12-24 Thread Henry E Schaffer
John McKown writes: > ... I mainly script in UNIX using Perl due to familiarity. And because > I love regular expressions. ... Regular expressions are a very powerful tool - and well integrated into Perl - but there is a learning curve. I learned a lot about them from Unix and Perl books - but

Re: FW: SAS on zLinux

2010-09-23 Thread Henry E Schaffer
David writes: > > Does anyone have any experience with WPS on zLinux as an alternative to > > SAS? > > Depends on what you want to do. If all you use SAS for is report generation > and various small amounts of data munging, then it's probably maybe OK. If > you use any of the analytics functions

Re: M$oft patents "sudo"

2009-11-12 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Scott writes: > I've got 2+2=4 locked in myself :-) Isn't that this a specific case, and your patent really is of "+" ? --henry schaffer -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Linux article

2009-10-06 Thread Henry E Schaffer
David writes: > ... > 1) They're counting only RHEL and SLES. Doesn't count Ubuntu, which > seems to power most of the netbooks ... FWIW, I recently bought an ASUS eee PC900 and it runs Debian. I think they've sold a lot of netbooks. -- --henry schaffer ---

Re: PuTTY replacement KiTTY

2009-05-18 Thread Henry E Schaffer
David Andrews writes: > On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 10:37 -0400, Lionel B Dyck wrote: > > PuTTY fork called KiTTY that was just recently > > updated. It has all the PuTTY features (since it is a fork from it) and > > more: > > ... plus a nasty limitation. From their website: > > "KiTTY is only des

Re: Old IBM Mainframe - Still Useful?

2009-03-23 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Erik writes: > ... Right now Microsoft has a choice. Rework M$ > Office such that it will happily and effectively inter-operate with > other office productivity suites, or stop selling M$ Office in Europe. > Difficult decision, since an inter-operable M$ Office is an M$ Office > your company can

Re: Old IBM Mainframe - Still Useful?

2009-03-23 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Dodds, Jim wrote: > ... So now we are planning on spending close to $200,000 on Dell > hardware and Microsoft server software. ... Has any looked at reliability? Some hardware/sofware combinations are boringly reliable, some not so. Does anyone care? --henry schaffer ---

Re: SFTP versus FTP

2008-07-09 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Tomasz writes: > I have a file on Unix server. When I transfer that file from Unix to Linux > using FTP - I'm getting file with the same size. > When I use SFTP, I'm getting file smaller by 79 bytes. The file has 79 > lines. > That file is then FTP from Linux to z/OS - using FTP batch job on z/O

Re: Ruby on Rails

2008-05-21 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Lea writes: > Inefficiency? Aren't all interpretive languages inefficient by > definition versus compiled languages? Maybe, it depends. Many interpreted languages call well coded / compiled routines, so the majority of the execution time very well may be in the routines. (Think APL. :-) I

Re: Ruby on Rails

2008-05-20 Thread Henry E Schaffer
John writes: > David Andrews wrote: > > According to TIOBE > > (http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html) > > Ruby is the 10th most popular programming language today. > And rising, 9th today. > > Java is #1 and COBOL is #15. Check it out and see where > >

Re: IBM Releases Office Desktop Software at No Charge to Foster Collaboration and Innovation

2007-09-19 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Kevin R writes: > Sounds like too little, too late to me. The release of Symphony may be much less significant that IBM's involvement in OpenOffice.org I often use Star / Open Office and its an excellent set of productivity tools. In my experience its main downside is that sometimes it has t

Re: Judge Says Unix Copyrights Rightfully Belong to Novell

2007-08-12 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Dave writes: > From the IBM-MAIN list: > > >http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/11/technology/11novell.html?ref=business > > > >"In the 102-page ruling, the judge, Dale A. Kimball, also said Novell > >could force SCO to abandon its claims against I.B.M." Perhaps the best place to read all the det

Re: What is vnc

2007-03-09 Thread Henry E Schaffer
John Summerfield writes: > ... > btw, not every implementation if vi is equal, vile is well-named, nvi is > ok, vigor is an enhanced nvi, but my favourite is vim, because there's a > GUI version of it (and a build for Windows). I agree about vim - it's what vi should have been :-) (and probably

Re: Linux and Railroad Diagrams

2007-01-31 Thread Henry E Schaffer
I'm not sure I know what is a "railroad diagram" and don't have the Pascal book handy (hey, I don't learn every new language which comes along. :-) Are there links to URLs which show/explain these things? -- --henry schaffer

Re: use sed or awk or ?

2006-10-25 Thread Henry E Schaffer
John writes: > I want to find the first comment line that begins with a target string > in column 1 (#target) and replace only that first target line with > another string. > There are multiple lines that begin with #target. > > I've struck out with sed (not that I know sed). > > Any quick hints on

Re: Fw: [LINUX-390] Who's been reading our list...

2006-05-18 Thread Henry E Schaffer
John Summerfied writes: > ... > I have not heard of any failed Intel or AMD CPUs in a very long time. > Accompanying system components such as RAM, disks, NICs, yes, but not > the CPU itself. The systems I use are built to be cheap; one can have > greater reliability for a greater price. I imagine

Re: VIM question.

2006-05-04 Thread Henry E Schaffer
On my Sun/Solaris I'm running VIM version 6.3 and it handles (as I wrote earlier) both vim -o test1 test2 and vim -o3 properly. My Intel/Linux runs version 6.3.71 (from the Fedora distribution) and does exactly the same thing. (vim -h only says 6.3) --henry schaffer ---

Re: VIM question.

2006-05-04 Thread Henry E Schaffer
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:30:54AM -0700, Fargusson.Alan wrote: > The quoted documentation corresponds to my understanding to the -o > option. As I stated in my question: vim -o file1 file2 should open > two windows, one with file1 and the other with file2. It doesn't do > that on the Intel Linux