Re: Recommend a mua please

2008-09-04 Thread Frank Terbeck
Steve Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Bret Busby wrote: >> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Péter András Felvégi wrote: >>> I have a few requirements for a mua, and have not yet found the ideal >>> program: > -- snip -- >> I trust that you are aware that, apparently, the Washington University

Re: Getting Email from 7 acounts with getmail every 20 seconds

2007-06-13 Thread Frank Terbeck
Orestes leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Depends, of course, on the volume. > > Ok, let's say that every 1 minutes, the volume it's very low. > > > > > On the other hand, I've never used getmail; I use fet

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-24 Thread Frank Terbeck
Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Frank Terbeck wrote: >> Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Frank Terbeck wrote: >>>> Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] >>> For example, Emacs' tags files use commas as delimiters, and

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-21 Thread Frank Terbeck
Octavio Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:26:40 -0700, Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: FS=" " >>> >>> IFS, I suppose. But: Why do you set it? >> ugh... good question. I wrote this ages ago ;-) > > To make sure spaces in filenames don't break them apart? N

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-21 Thread Frank Terbeck
Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] zsh, yay! :-) Just a few remarks. > #!/bin/zsh > > FS=" > " IFS, I suppose. But: Why do you set it? > for f in **/* for i in ./**/* # make f=./$f unneeded below. > do > #required for files in the current dir. > f=./$f > #dir of file > fp1=$

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-19 Thread Frank Terbeck
Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Frank Terbeck wrote: >> Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Frank Terbeck wrote: >>>> Mike McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>>> Frank Terbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> &

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-18 Thread Frank Terbeck
H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Frank Terbeck wrote: > >> b) it breaks on filenames with spaces (and other special characters). >> While newlines and other special characters might be rather weird >> for filenames, spaces are perfectly okay and normal in filenam

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-18 Thread Frank Terbeck
Daniel B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Frank Terbeck wrote: >> Mike McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Frank Terbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>>> for FILE in `ls *$1` ; do > ... >> b) it breaks on filenames with spaces (and oth

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-17 Thread Frank Terbeck
Mike McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Frank Terbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > for FILE in `ls *$1` ; do > > > > Please don't teach beginners to do for loops like this. It's broken in > > various ways. Just do: > > > >

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-17 Thread Frank Terbeck
Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > Since I frequently receive files from Microsoft Windows users, is there any > > utility to unix-ify file names, that is, use lower case exclusively, use > > hyphen as separator, etc.? [...] > #!/bin/sh > #change sp

Re: Noob question - best way to install software

2007-04-15 Thread Frank Terbeck
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 06:00:02PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: [...] > >> sudo apt-get build-dep texmacs > >> sudo apt-get source texmacs [...] > > > > Are those things a newbie cares about? I've never used them i