RE: off topic/learning C

1999-01-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks, > > Kent > > There's the newsgroup comp.lang.c, but I've never been inside there, so I > don't > know what its like. It's pretty good, though not reading the FAQ may well get you flamed. > I'm quite willing to answer C questions in pri

Re: off topic/learning C

1999-01-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 20 Jan 1999, Carey Evans wrote: > Are you *sure* you want to learn C? Why not take Eric Raymond's > advice at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html> and > learn Python? It's an easier language, the newsgroup > "comp.lang.python" isn't very busy, and it's useful on Mac on Win32 > *

Re: off topic/learning C

1999-01-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Hi, I posted to the Debian user's group the other day and asked for > advice on which computer language to learn in order to program for > Linux. The language I chose was C. The book to learn from, "Practical > C Programming" O'reilly. Well I tried to make my first program "Hello > World" fo

RE: off topic/learning C

1999-01-20 Thread jmlb2
On 19-Jan-99 ktb wrote: > Hi, I posted to the Debian user's group the other day and asked for > advice on which computer language to learn in order to program for > Linux. The language I chose was C. The book to learn from, "Practical > C Programming" O'reilly. Well I tried to make my first pr

Re: off topic/learning C

1999-01-20 Thread Carey Evans
ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I posted to the Debian user's group the other day and asked for > advice on which computer language to learn in order to program for > Linux. The language I chose was C. Debian-mentors isn't the right list for this either. Are you *sure* you want to learn C? W

off topic/learning C

1999-01-20 Thread ktb
Hi, I posted to the Debian user's group the other day and asked for advice on which computer language to learn in order to program for Linux. The language I chose was C. The book to learn from, "Practical C Programming" O'reilly. Well I tried to make my first program "Hello World" following the

Re: Bug#27050 (fdutils): A cause for security concern?

1999-01-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Fok wrote: > As the Slink deep freeze and release are impending, I would like to ask your > advice: Should I follow the suggestion given by the bug reporter Thomas > Roessler? I think so. For people who want to mount floppies without being root you can also use a line in /etc/fs

Re: Lintian error: executable-in-usr-doc

1999-01-20 Thread Edward Betts
On Tue, 19 Jan, 1999, tmancill wrote: > I second this notion. I wrote a script for the wanpipe package that > checks to see if the kernel patches have been applied, and does this if > needed. It really doesn't belong in /usr/doc/$package/examples, but I put > it there to get lintian to be quiet.