Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Todd Graham Lewis wrote: >> Ok, how's this for a killer Linux feature. killall(1). I f*cking _love_ >> killall; you just have to be careful not to use it on non-Linux systems. >> 8^) >> > >Nice try, but wrong again. That'

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-22 Thread Stephen Zander
Todd Graham Lewis wrote: > Ok, how's this for a killer Linux feature. killall(1). I f*cking _love_ > killall; you just have to be careful not to use it on non-Linux systems. > 8^) > Nice try, but wrong again. That's a SVR4 feature :) >From my Solaris man page... killall(1M) Maintenan

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-21 Thread Todd Graham Lewis
On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > It means that Linux has another extra feature (VC's) that most (all?) > other usixes don't have, but whether that means Linux is much > better than FreeBSD/SCO/NT, I really don't know (I don't use > the other systems) FreeBSD has virtual consoles as w

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-21 Thread joost witteveen
> > Todd> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Todd Graham Lewis wrote: > Todd> > Todd> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: > Todd> > Todd> > Linux is great but thouse are NOT linux only things. > Todd> > Todd> OK, you're right, these are features generic to gnu-ish shells like > bash > Todd

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-21 Thread Orn E. Hansen
> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: > > > Linux is great but thouse are NOT linux only things. > > OK, you're right, these are features generic to gnu-ish shells like bash > and zsh which receive their greatest exposure through Linux. Virtual > consoles aren't even Linux-specific, al

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-21 Thread Stephen Zander
Todd Graham Lewis wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: > > > Linux is great but thouse are NOT linux only things. > > OK, you're right, these are features generic to gnu-ish shells like bash > and zsh which receive their greatest exposure through Linux. Virtual > consoles aren'

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-21 Thread Joey Hess
> OK, you're right, these are features generic to gnu-ish shells like bash > and zsh which receive their greatest exposure through Linux. Virtual > consoles aren't even Linux-specific, although they were one of Linus' main > beefs with Minix, as I recall; from the beginning they have been a touted

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-20 Thread Carl Greco
According to Todd Graham Lewis: > > On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Robert Nicholson wrote: > > > Exactly what is this multi screen session concept that allows you > > to type ALT-F4 and login again... I'd like to read the documentation on > > this feature. > > 8^) > > This is one of many undocumented goo

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-20 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Seak,> Seak,> Boris D. Beletsky wrote: Seak,> > Seak,> > Todd> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Todd Graham Lewis wrote: Seak,> > Todd> Seak,> > Todd> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: Seak,> > Todd> Seak,> > Todd> > Linux is great but thou

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-20 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
Boris D. Beletsky wrote: > > Todd> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Todd Graham Lewis wrote: > Todd> > Todd> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: > Todd> > Todd> > Linux is great but thouse are NOT linux only things. > Todd> > Todd> OK, you're right, these are features generic to gnu-ish shell

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-20 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
Todd> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Todd Graham Lewis wrote: Todd> Todd> On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: Todd> Todd> > Linux is great but thouse are NOT linux only things. Todd> Todd> OK, you're right, these are features generic to gnu-ish shells like bash Todd> and zsh which receiv

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-20 Thread Todd Graham Lewis
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: > Linux is great but thouse are NOT linux only things. OK, you're right, these are features generic to gnu-ish shells like bash and zsh which receive their greatest exposure through Linux. Virtual consoles aren't even Linux-specific, although they we

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-20 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Todd Graham Lewis wrote: Todd> Also, did you know that you can have a session going, quit from it, and Todd> resume that session later? You can, and the company that brings it to you Todd> is not AT&T. 8^) Do a man on screen and read for yourself. Todd> Todd> Next thi

Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-20 Thread Todd Graham Lewis
On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Robert Nicholson wrote: > Exactly what is this multi screen session concept that allows you > to type ALT-F4 and login again... I'd like to read the documentation on > this feature. 8^) This is one of many undocumented goodies which lie scattered throughout the Linux univers

What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Robert" == Robert Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> Exactly what is this multi screen session concept that Robert> allows you to type ALT-F4 and login again... I'd like to Robert> read the documentation on this feature. It's virtual consoles! Since Linux is multiu

What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

1997-01-18 Thread Robert Nicholson
Exactly what is this multi screen session concept that allows you to type ALT-F4 and login again... I'd like to read the documentation on this feature. Cheers. -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.