nl putting in extra returns on only on some boxes

2003-11-02 Thread Joel Hammer
I am running this command: nl -bp___ -s -w 3 against some files to number them. The files look like this: SITE ___ Foot ___ Leg SIZE ___ Less than 5 mm ___ More than 5 mm etc. The output looks like this on my older linux box: SITE 1 ___ Foot 2 ___ Leg SIZE 3 ___ Less than 5 mm 4 ___ More

backup windows partition (fat)

2003-11-02 Thread Collins Richey
Is there an easy way to backup a windows partition then restore it later without gimping anything that windows requires? I have a small hda (hda1 is a win98 partition, the rest is a swap and a linux partition). My active linux systems are on hdb. I want to retain the win98 stuff (rest of hda is

Re: backup windows partition (fat)

2003-11-02 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Well, When I worked with Win9x I used to xcopy the system to another disk or partition making sure I told it to copy empty subdirectories, and I had view hidden files turned on. I installed the new disk as a second disk, did the copy and then I would take the new disk and put it place of the

Re: backup windows partition (fat)

2003-11-02 Thread Ted Ozolins
Collins Richey wrote: Is there an easy way to backup a windows partition then restore it later without gimping anything that windows requires? I have a small hda (hda1 is a win98 partition, the rest is a swap and a linux partition). My active linux systems are on hdb. I want to retain the win98

KDE Lockups

2003-11-02 Thread Shawn Tayler
Hi Guys, I have an annoying problem that I've run out of ideas on. I have an updated Slackware 8.1 install, not Slack 9.1-Current that KDE keeps locking up on. Netscape, Opera, ver 6 and 7, Acroread, Gimp, have all locked it up tught on numerous occasions. There's nothing in any of the logs in