RE: what tools do you use for programming

1998-12-16 Thread dmarsh
This is more linux and not Java (but I will respond to the group at this information might be useful!; this also assumes x86 platform) You can have LILO installed as the "Master Boot Record" program just fine. When you use fdisk for cfdisk under linux, you will notice that your NTFS partition (if

RE: RMI binding bug

1998-11-18 Thread dmarsh
Just a pointer: for /etc/hosts (or the equiv in NT (windir)\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) (assume your I/F IP is 10.12.14.16) --- 127.0.0.1 localhost 10.12.14.16 thehost.mydomain.org mypc --- the order is somewhat important (ip a

RE: Retrieving a fully qualified hostname under NT

1998-11-17 Thread dmarsh
Oops I pressed Control-S for Send... darn it (windowsdir)\LMHOSTS. The file on NT is not specified and you MUST point to it through the IP setup screens. The normal location for it is (winntdir)\system32\drivers\etc\lmhosts (which is where the other Unix like files are also, hosts, services, prot

RE: Retrieving a fully qualified hostname under NT

1998-11-17 Thread dmarsh
The IP model will change in NT 5 (more Unix like) but the name issue will continue to pose a problem. Back when there was no names, each machine managed it's OWN name to ip conversion: (aka /etc/hosts) name servers came into play and we now have /etc/resolv.conf for unix machines (although the

RE: Unix Programming Book

1998-11-17 Thread dmarsh
Um.. Well (aside from Java) 1) The K&R 'C' and 'C++' book for starters (they had a big hand in the ansi standards) 2) Shell script programming books (ones with plenty of examples and covers shell script security) -- KSH, BASH, TCSH, ZSH, etc... I just spotted one the other day at B&N and flipped