Re: [FRIAM] Unix Nightmare

2016-10-22 Thread ┣glen┫
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/unix_terminal_online.php On 10/22/2016 07:46 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > I was going to tell Gil that “cat” is sort of like “type” in the command > prompt (no big deal) but I thought I would open one to make sure that was the > name of the command since I haven’t

Re: [FRIAM] Unix Nightmare

2016-10-22 Thread Frank Wimberly
I was going to tell Gil that “cat” is sort of like “type” in the command prompt (no big deal) but I thought I would open one to make sure that was the name of the command since I haven’t used it for years. I realize that I don’t know how to open the command prompt on this Windows 7 laptop. Wi

Re: [FRIAM] Unix Nightmare

2016-10-22 Thread Gillian Densmore
Oh that's easyish. If cat then[sleep, purr, want outside when owner is putting shoes, stare at owner at 5AM for food] dowhile this.owner {not,home}: [playrock, play WOW. break cheep_vase] else notCat.now. Though I have feeling unix tool that I don't understand. On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 12:34 PM,

Re: [FRIAM] Unix Nightmare

2016-10-22 Thread ┣glen┫
What makes this nightmarish (to me) is the broken contract between you and "cat", or larger between you and your OS. Such broken contracts are a part of all my nightmares. And the admittedly more pleasant aspects of the nightmare are the ways you try to restore your operational power inside t

Re: [FRIAM] Unix Nightmare

2016-10-22 Thread Steven A Smith
Lee - Good lord, Frank. Surely you are teasing me. How could your memory of a dream not be accurate?! I thought it was widely believed by Psychologists (as it is certainly believed by *me*) that one commits an error (a category error, perhaps? or an error of attribution?) if one thinks of "

Re: [FRIAM] Unix Nightmare

2016-10-22 Thread Steven A Smith
Marcus - Using a logic programming language (like Prolog) sometimes feels to me like a dream state, sort of like Frank describes. I use logic programming as a cognitive aide as well as a computational aide. Asking, “How do the pieces fit together in a problem? What is independent and wha

Re: [FRIAM] Unix Nightmare

2016-10-22 Thread lrudolph
Frank writes: > Nick, > > Well, sometimes when I'm thinking about a dream, I suddenly remember some > detail that I had completely forgotten. But more often I fall back to > sleep. In my old age, I seldom remember dreams. in reply to Nick: > > Good lord, Frank. Surely you are teasing me. Ho