tion: why
"Eterm" and "Bash" but not "Rxvt"? Why "Themes" in the middle of the
sentence?
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gra, home loans, online medicine, etc :)
People (aka scum) who harvest addresses only care about a numbers, not
"target markets".
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ases where the applet
> name contains "gnome" or "applet" it can be re-arranged.
g-f-a is fine for new stuff, but please *don't* rename existing
packages, it just causes upgrade problems, and/or more dummy packages.
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arguments that must be
passed on the command line, or info that might be prompted for.
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;t think I ever wrote the final control
file by hand.
dpgk-gencontrol != debhelper
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quot;." in it's name
GNUstep.
If we are going to allow generic names, then obviously they would be
applied to the most commonly used or "best for the novice" example, so
I'm pretty sure that GNUstep apps aren't going to get them.
Steve
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hat including
per-file md5sums in packages provides any real value. Others disagree,
as sometimes happens. As the arguments have already been made in this
thread, over and over and over and over, I won't repeat them.
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c right now.
There's no intent for /proc to go away. The point of sysfs is to remove
all (or at least most) the non-process related info from /proc (which
had become a dumping ground).
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system a
On 05-Dec-03, 05:54 (CST), Mathieu Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > As for me, I'm happy to provide either my current menu files, which are
> > supported by all of the DE/WM systems in Debian, *or* .desktop file
d to the menu package, in such a way that it
automatically creates/updates/removes the appropriate /usr/lib/menu/
entries when a package is installed/upgraded/removed. Then the existing
menu methods for all the other WMs would continue to work.
Most of us (I think) don't object to using the
ed by all (or at least most) the DE/WM systems in
Debian.
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assuming you're looking
for the end of a NUL terminated string, the expression you are looking for
is "*curpos != '\0'".
But I'm guessing the problem is that "sprintf(buf,...)" call.
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On 01-Dec-03, 08:26 (CST), Roland Stigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, there wasn't much response to this. Maybe this is related
> to the big Debian KO.
Or maybe because making technical decisions by voting is silly.
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On 17-Nov-03, 09:13 (CST), Cameron Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:49:03AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> | As a long-time C coder, I agreed with you. But after doing a small
> | python project, I was surprised at how quickly it became natural. It
&
ithout the existence of Python.
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often don't have
much space for the long description, and having to scroll every time to
skip past the summary is mildly annoying.
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made a big deal about how you
were following the "de-facto standards" of Debian. It's amazing how much
intellectual dishonesty one person can demonstrate in so little space.
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you
> can help me improve my package.
Oh, that's a hoot, since you've been ignoring or belittling every one
who has been trying to improve it.
> Of course it does. Tell me what is inconsistent in my list of
> advantages. (And please, don't repeat the same arguments over again
On 06-Nov-03, 13:47 (CST), Keegan Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:14:31PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > Surely these won't all show up in the same Packages file...if you're
> > running GNU/KFreeBSD, it will be a FreeBSD kernel, rig
become
> more popular, is there a potential for confusion in the future?
Surely these won't all show up in the same Packages file...if you're
running GNU/KFreeBSD, it will be a FreeBSD kernel, right? Why would the
Linux and Hurd kernels even be in the list?
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el. If there's such a huge fscking demand
for it, why isn't it out there?
And yes, I'm going to continue to object everytime someone makes stupid
statements like "Woody is so old it's useless". That's just noise,
unless you add "... for purposes a, b, and c
/Mozilla (thanks,
Adrian). But that's it.
Steve
[1] Not on their work machine, at least.
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jump in here and
tell the peole doing the work what to do, especially when all you have
to contribute is weirdo conspiracy theories and not-very-sly personal
insinuations.
Steve, who hasn't see this kind of nuttiness since reading the mplayer
mailling lists/flame wars.
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e original documentation did not explicitely
> say that all rules files absolutely need to be makefiles, but we warped it
> to mean that later.
Oh, please. It may not have been explicitly documented, but it was sure
as hell intended to be a Makefile. The "warpage" merely documented the
exist
> Should I add a best guess font package or is there a kind of meta
> > package available for ttf packages?
>
> What font does the program use by default? I would Depend on that one.
If it's an X program, then it shouldn't Depend on any font, as they may
be on another serv
On 19-Oct-03, 13:03 (CDT), Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:50:41AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > > But it's a historic injustice,
> >
> > Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
> > The Man is keeping me down!
>
On 19-Oct-03, 04:20 (CDT), Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But it's a historic injustice,
Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
The Man is keeping me down!
Up with perl, down with make!
Power to the people!
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hy we don't allow anything
that meets the expected interface.
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build:
jam # Or whatever command line you would normally build netpanzer with
Or are you thinking the the debian/rules file needs to be a Jamfile?
Don't do that.
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ted our opinions, this consistent response should be enough
to make you reconsider. If you were expecting a universal "Oh, that evil
James Troup, he's a power mad dictator" response, well, sorry, that's a
different thread, and a different topic.
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this in
> Debian Policy and then I'll agree without asking but this is not the
> case.
Not every good practice is in Policy. You're supposed to be able to
apply a little common sense as well. The objection is not to a small
package but pointless splitting of packages.
Stev
On 14-Oct-03, 07:00 (CDT), Magos?nyi ?rp?d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Which road will you take to make linda fall into testing?
Why do you need it in testing? The whole point of it is to run against
packages you are building, and you should be building in unstable.
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ally linked, and will build
the link command by hand.
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On 09-Oct-03, 14:48 (CDT), Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> GCC may, in fact, be more likely to have optimization bugs than, say,
> the old DEC Fortran compiler.
Looking at the other replies, I see this turns out to be the case, esp.
on non-x86. So apparently it falls in
On 09-Oct-03, 13:00 (CDT), Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:24:43AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > No. While they certainly do exist, >99% of the time, if code works at
> > -O0 but not at -O2, then the code is broken.
>
c optimization operations that require certain assumptions about
the code above and beyond "correct", but none of those are enable by a
simple -O2.)
Steve
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nting on debian-devel.
But this is exactly the correct answer. Problems with individual
packages are exactly that. If you want a problem fixed, file a bug. If
the solution to the problem needs to be discussed in a wider venue, then
it will be.
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On 03-Oct-03, 10:49 (CDT), Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Greenland wrote:
>
> > You might consider including a default filter so that the only
> > candidates for automatic removal begin with 'lib' and don't end with
> > '-dev&
nd (which I don't think is likely;
> I already thought for a while about this before changing the default to
> be "on")
You might consider including a default filter so that the only
candidates for automatic removal begin with 'lib' and don't end with
'-d
kage
installation tool a new user sees (although the aptitude task view is
not bad) (Sorry, Daniel!) Aptitude is nice power tool for dealing with
6000+ packages (or whatever it is now), but newbies shouldn't ever see
that - by default, I mean.
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lusion of lines such as DESC, NAME, etc in the
> scripts would help me...
Am I the only one who sees the disconnect between these two statements?
Steve
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but there's a significant difference between including bug fixes
and de-facto required architecture-specific updates and including a
completely new subsystem backported from 2.5 yet calling it 2.4. For
$DIETY's sake, we keep ALSA as a separate patch/module, why is putting
in IPSEC justified?
Steve
to cause problems when $var was undefined. So we learned to do
[ "X$var" = "Xfoo" ]
which leads to using '[ "X$foo" = "X" ]' to test for empty.
Steve
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ng with the Satanic automake and the unspeakably foul
libtool.
(Actually, vixie-cron probably pre-dates autoconf, but my point is still
valid: --prefix is NOT generically used in debian/rules.)
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On 02-Sep-03, 23:50 (CDT), Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting Steve Greenland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > Yes, obvious in retrospect, and I'll put the brown paper bag on my head
> > after I upload the fix.
>
> Will the fix include the switc
name.
Someone else mentioned usernames with spaces...is that really supported?
Steve
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in * ; do
chown $ct:crontab $ct
done
Then run 'dpkg --configure --pending'.
Yes, obvious in retrospect, and I'll put the brown paper bag on my head
after I upload the fix.
Steve
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On 17-Aug-03, 17:11 (CDT), Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd hoped to get the suggestions here and Solar Designer's work
> incorporated tested, and uploaded before I left on a 2 week vacation,
> but I'm not going to get it done. But it *is* in progess,
On 06-Aug-03, 09:18 (CDT), Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 08:01:51AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> >
> > Depends: ssmtp | mail-transport-agent
> >
> > That way, if you don't have an MTA already, it will select a simpl
get
mail to a real MTA" package, whose configuration will ask "where's your
real MTA?"
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to have many of those
> in the free software community.
Now *that* is a true statement.
Steve
[1] The existing variations are painful enough. Let's not add to the problem
[2] Yes, I know that's probably not the actual VMS command. It's been a
while, and I don't have manual h
not be installable. I hardly see this as a violation of
the Social Contract.
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d crontab, or a wicked definition for "EDITOR".
Steve
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Crontab and cron check the file with the same functions. It will fail to
load once, and since cron only reads files that have been updated, it
won't endlessly try to reload it once a minute.
Steve
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system allows users to give away their files (as with the recent XFS bug),
> and gid cron becomes equivalent to root again.
Nor do they do any good if root's password is empty. Not cron's problem.
(Insert standard homily about security and the chain's weakest link.)
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ignal.
If the program exited normally, the return value of
.B time
is the return value of the program. Othewise, the return value is the
number of the signal which caused the program to stop or terminate.
...Or some such. Sending people off to wait(2) is a bit much.
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On 02-Aug-03, 17:00 (CDT), Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 05:51, Steve Greenland wrote:
> Sounds good to me. You are not the first person to do it however, I believe
> that Solar Designer did the same thing for OpenWall (of course when Solar
>
On 02-Aug-03, 16:25 (CDT), Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:53:00PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > To ship the setgid program, I need to have the group 'cron' on the
> > build system.
>
> i think this is covered by
On 02-Aug-03, 14:51 (CDT), Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Beyond the coding (which is mostly removing setuid()
> calls), this involves the following changes:
To ship the setgid program, I need to have the group 'cron' on the
build system. Not a problem for me,
rectly in the spool
directory. Since one could all that with the crontab command anyway, it
doesn't seem a big deal.
Comments, suggestions?
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(Sorry for the dup, Dwayne, meant to send this to the list.)
On 24-Jul-03, 17:56 (CDT), "Dwayne C. Litzenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 02:50:05PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > Please don't. Is there *any* reason why defaulting
&
se-config.
Please don't. Is there *any* reason why defaulting
TMPDIR=/tmp/ is inferior to TMPDIR=/tmp? If not, just do it,
don't bother people with unnecesary questions.
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fending
> them by telling that nobody cares about using its hardware at his
> full capacity (in fact, at least at 50% of it's capacity) seems just
> wrong.
I didn't say that nobody cared, what I said (or at least meant to imply)
was that a great many of us *don't* care abo
detect and correct all
the different ways one can screw up an MTA configuration. Such is life.
So if I get a vote, I'd strongly urge the 'local-delivery-only' default
on new installs, without going through the exim configuration, but just
a note pointing the admin at dpkg-recon
ginning of the freeze, mark all the WNPP
packages for removal (along with their dependencies :-)), and then see
if we can inspire some reaction.
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t the advantages of gettext(). Of
course, you don't get the full advantages of VMS system then, but you
won't anyway on a Unix system.
Steve
If
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file from what was shipped in -73, I get a
bogus changed conffile message during the install (well, not really
bogus, because dpkg can't know that it isn't just some random file on
the system, but annoying.)
Am I just going to have to handle all of this in the maintainer scripts?
How tedi
supposed to be 1<=X<=10, or is the voting software
unreasonably limited? (I'm guessing the former, and voting
accordingly...)
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y).
Instead of backporting these core tools again, there's Adrian Bunk's
woody backport site; see http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/packages/ for info.
And thanks, Adrian!
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ly too specialized (heh).
Alternatively, if people decide that "field of use" is a legitimate
category for tags, then "specialized" is probably not the correct term;
at least that's not what comes to my mind.
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;
OS for that architecture.
> And when did MacOS
> become the native OS on PPC?
By my above argument, the native OS for PPC is AIX. :-)
Steve
[1] Yes, I know about (and used) the UCSD P-System, but it wasn't
shipped with the IBM PC.
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your cursor blink blue or green" is a high-priority
question. I look forward to that day.
Regards,
Steve
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, it's not quite as bad as the Windows version,
because it doesn't corrupt itself when looked at sideways, since it was
written by competent people.
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idea, because the
common implementation is to NOT include the same information under
/usr/share/doc/, and thus those of us who have low and medium
priority turned off lose that info.
Steve
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; questions from medium to low.
Huh? If all the questions it asks can be converted to priority low, then
that means there are reasonable defaults, and therefore IT SHOULDN'T BE
USING DEBCONF AT ALL.
How hard is this? What is so unclear about Policy on this topic?
Steve
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expression of assent.
But only if that assent is obtained each and every time, not by checking
what the admin answered 8 months ago on the original install. And the
whole thing is better handled using conffiles, where I can diff and
merge the changes, when it's convenient for me, rather than
dmin is
deliberately asking for it.
Steve, extremely disappointed about how chatty package installation has
become.
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> > echo $?
> 1
>
> I assume it is meant to do more then just emulate the false
> command? ;-)
It's a (reported) bug in the libpgtcl package:
/usr/lib/libtclpg.so is linked to ../postgresql/lib/libtclpg.so instead
of postgresql/lib/libtclpg.so. Fix the
gnoring special cases like dpkg-grep-available, or whatever it's
called.
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c to
get out)" part of Arnaud's message? Because you can't just hang an
installation run because you're having to guess a default. (I don't
think you are, actually, because I've seen the barrage of keymap
messages before, but never had a problem with it hanging.)
of. :-)
Nah, programmers know that whitespace (>1) is syntactically irrelevant,
and will *never* get it right! :-)
Steve
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d need to strip out the extra space and do
it correctly. (Actually, IMO, it looks fairly dreadful in fixed width
fonts, too).
(Of course, if this is the worst problem we have with Debian package
descriptions, I say flip a coin and forget about it.)
Steve
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rnative and agree on the relative priorities each will use.
Steve
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ckage display
programs (aptitude, apt-cache show) will not bother to attempt to figure
out which periods end a sentence, and thus "need" extra spacing. OTOH a
lot of people (IMO) would argue that the fixed-width two-space end of
sentence is sufficiently ugly that we're better off witho
ust point to the guide when a
poor ITP description shows up.
Steve
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tachements now, right?)
Steve (another one)
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On 24-Aug-02, 09:48 (CDT), Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 21:40, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > While I'll grant you that "dangerous" is probably not the correct
> > adjective, the current behaviour is correct. Debian policy is that
> > packages d
eplace/diff/keep a modified conffile, why dont they apply
> to missing conffiles, too?
Because you only get that question if the distributed version of the
conffile is changed also.
Steve
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witch would be helpful if available in apt-get.
apt-get --option Dpkg::Options=--force-confmiss
Steve
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p a cron.allow, but the point is
there: A missing cron.allow permits everybody to use crontab, while an
empty cron.allow forbids use of crontab by anybody (except root, of
course).
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quot;.
Steve
[1] E.g. /etc/cron.allow (crontab(1)).
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d
here.
Just for the hell of it, I'll claim that making all the dependencies in
jdk-free virtual is a violation of the Social Contract, as it puts an
undue burden on the users. That seems to settle most discussions.
Steve
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h work well together. If the package choices don't suit you, then
don't install it. Isn't that easy? I don't use xdm, and prefer rxvt
to xterm, but I don't try to tell Branden what packages to put in the
x-window-system package.
Steve
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On 11-Jan-02, 08:45 (CST), "Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, but it is really a bug that should be filed. The daemon will
> be killed by SAK otherwise (look at #92277 for further enlightenment).
You can't, in general, close *all* open file descriptors. OPEN_MAX
may not
On 06-Jan-02, 01:51 (CST), Egon Willighagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Now, I am facing the following problem (after making more space):
>
> - how can i determine which packages were updated yesterday?
> - how can i (semi)-automatically reinstall these packages?
I see that it turned out tha
On 06-Jan-02, 04:55 (CST), Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You need to do this in a portable way so that it works on every system...
No, the people who want modern code to run on their systems need to
figure out how to support the standard. Why should every piece of
code contain the w
On 01-Jan-02, 18:06 (CST), Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also, vim is higher precedence than nvi.
Ack. That's no longer true. Sorry.
Steve
o with my time than make ugly code to
support systems that haven't been upgraded for over a decade.
Steve
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On 31-Dec-01, 19:42 (CST), Ganesan R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Another thing that puzzles me since this whole debate started. If you look
> at the declaration of ctype.h functions (isalpha family), they take a int as
> an argument.
The reason the argument for these is int is a relic of the dar
On 01-Jan-02, 17:22 (CST), Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Caleb Shay wrote:
>
> > However, as was pointed out below, vim is NOT the
> > default vi when you install,
>
> Only true if you install nvi (or some other higher-precedence vi clone),
> which isn't required. (g)vim is the only
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