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's a SVR4

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) Maintenance

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?

1997-01-21 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't even

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, although

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 and zsh which

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

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 universe,

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 ATT. 8^) Do a man on screen and read for yourself. Todd Todd Next thing

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

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 receive their

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 shells like bash

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 thouse are NOT linux

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 goodies which

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 multiuser, you

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.