Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:08:00PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: > > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in > > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ?

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:44:40PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > | - You won't get the same data displayed by the graphical interface | > | (which you'd [expect] it to print if it supported printing). | > | > Maybe, maybe not. What data is this, exactly? | | What

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:18:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: | On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:51, Paul Johnson wrote: | > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:34:43PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: | > > Not to mention the fact that I'd love to see a good definition of what | > > is 'normally' installed on a Linux ma

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:51, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:34:43PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > > Not to mention the fact that I'd love to see a good definition of what > > is 'normally' installed on a Linux machine. > > Ohh,

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel B.
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > ... > > | - You won't get the same data displayed by the graphical interface > | (which you'd [expect] it to print if it supported printing). > > Maybe, maybe not. What data is this, exactly? Whatever the graphical interface is currently set to display. (That

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:34:43PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > Not to mention the fact that I'd love to see a good definition of what > is 'normally' installed on a Linux machine. Ohh, ooh! I got it! The kernel. Everything after that comes sepera

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:11:59AM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: Does this not require installing some additional software other than what normally is installed with WindowsXP, Linux w/KDE, or Linux w/Gnome ? Why does it matter? If you can get it done, why moan? Not to ment

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please quote interspersed. http://learn.to/quote/ On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:11:59AM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: > Does this not require installing some additional software other than > what normally is installed with WindowsXP, Linux w/KDE, or Lin

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:54:55AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > - You have to open or at least switch to a different window. > - You have to type or copy and paste the directory name. In konqueror, right click away from an icon and select Actions, then O

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 11:31, Terry Hancock wrote: > On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:08 pm, James D. Freels wrote: > > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in > > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? > > I was about to pooh-pooh this a bit, but in

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 11:58, Terry Hancock wrote: > On Friday 24 October 2003 10:43 am, Mental Patient wrote: > it. The one thing > > perl has on python is that there's an imagemagic module for perl. My > > python scripts are doing lots of os.system() calls :) > > Look for "PythonMagick" (caps m

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 18:08, James D. Freels wrote: > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? > > The only way I could find was to save a bit map to the clipboard, then > paste the clipboard contents into an

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread James D. Freels
I have learned how to do this through this inquiry: Under Linux, you can use Opera7.21, Mozilla1.5 (added since 1.2), Netscape7.1 (added since 7.0) with a URL of "file:/" and print the directory listing. Under Windows, you can use the same browsers with the URL "C:\" and print the directory listi

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Terry Hancock
On Friday 24 October 2003 09:57 am, Craig Dickson wrote: > Presumably because he normally uses a GUI file manager (Konqueror or > some equivalent) and it would be convenient, if one already had a window > open on some directory, to simply select "Print" from the menu to get a > hardcopy of the dire

RE: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread ornl
e- >> From: Lindsley, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:56 AM >> To: Freels, James D.; ORNL Linux Users; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: Victor R. Cain >> Subject: RE: classic deficiancy in both win

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Terry Hancock
On Friday 24 October 2003 10:43 am, Mental Patient wrote: it. The one thing > perl has on python is that there's an imagemagic module for perl. My > python scripts are doing lots of os.system() calls :) Look for "PythonMagick" (caps may be different). There was one, then it died and lost compat

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Terry Hancock
On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:08 pm, James D. Freels wrote: > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? I was about to pooh-pooh this a bit, but in fact, he's right: both Konqueror and Mozilla (at least) lack

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:43:12AM -0400, Mental Patient wrote: | The one thing perl has on python is that there's an imagemagic | module for perl. My python scripts are doing lots of os.system() | calls :) Perhaps the PIL (Python Imaging Library) package would be more suitable for you? Even if

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:54:55AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: | Ron Johnson wrote: | > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: | > > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in | > > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? | > | > What's wrong

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Mental Patient
Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:11, Mental Patient wrote: I found myself using imagemagic often to manipulate photos taken with a digital camera. I use nautilus/gnome as my desktop environment. After a while it got annoying to have to keep dropping into a shell to rotate,

RE: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread James D. Freels
gt; > -Original Message- > > From: Freels, James D. > > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 6:08 PM > > To: ORNL Linux Users; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: Victor R. Cain > > Subject: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ? > >

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:11, Mental Patient wrote: > I found myself using imagemagic often to > manipulate photos taken with a digital camera. I use nautilus/gnome as > my desktop environment. After a while it got annoying to have to keep > dropping into a shell to rotate, scale or montage the

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:08:00PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: > > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in > > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? > > Why would you want to do this, when the command prompt is exactly wha

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Mental Patient
Daniel B. wrote: When you're looking at a directory using a graphical interface, a lot: - You have to open or at least switch to a different window. - You have to type or copy and paste the directory name. - You won't get the same data displayed by the graphical interface (which you'd expected it

RE: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Lindsley, Chris
ers; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Victor R. Cain > Subject: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ? > > > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? > > The onl

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel B.
"Stephen L. Scott" wrote: > > specifically - the instructions are as follows below... > ... > > top active screen: > -- > > [ctrl]+[alt]+[prnscr]copy to clipboard > [shift]+[insert] paste from clipboard - or any program paste option You mean window. Doesn't that only

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel B.
Ron Johnson wrote: > > Hey, Linux is Perfect!!! You must be an Evil Windows Troll!!! > > But seriously: > > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: > > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in > > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread David Pye
Make yourself a script :) Then give it an icon and you can run it from the desktop. Try something like: #!/bin/bash dirname=`kdialog --inputbox "Please enter dir name"` if [ ! -d "$dirname" ]; then kdialog --error "Directory does not exist" exit fi #Directory exists ls $dirname

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:08:00PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? Why would you want to do this, when the command promp

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:11:15PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > it's kinda funny that while e.g. konqueror makes it possible to > browse file:// it doesn't allow printing (at least the version I just > tried it in) I just checked, and mozilla-firebird allows me to print a file://. listing. --

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Stephen L. Scott
specifically - the instructions are as follows below... James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? The only way I could find was to save a bit map to the clipboard, then paste the clipboa

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Joyce, Matthew wrote: Hey, Linux is Perfect!!! You must be an Evil Windows Troll!!! But seriously: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? What's wrong wi

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Tom
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 07:53:17PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hey, Linux is Perfect!!! You must be an Evil Windows Troll!!! > > But seriously: > > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: > > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in > > Windows) and print i

RE: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > Hey, Linux is Perfect!!! You must be an Evil Windows Troll!!! > > But seriously: > > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: > > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in > > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? > > What's w

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
Hey, Linux is Perfect!!! You must be an Evil Windows Troll!!! But seriously: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? What's wrong with the command lin

classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread James D. Freels
Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? The only way I could find was to save a bit map to the clipboard, then paste the clipboard contents into another application, then print. Any other ideas ? -- James D