Re: FSpecs

2002-11-14 Thread ichi
Ray Olszewski wrote: > > > > In my case I need the first 8 characters and the > > > last 4 (.xxx) > > > >-- > >example="long-filename.to.munge.txt" > >echo ${example%${example#}}.${example##*.} > >-

Print Queue Disappearing

2002-11-14 Thread Peter
Hi, In RH7.3 documents place for printing are being aborted after a certain time and if large documents are being printed printing suddenly stops. When then checking lpq it is empty which is annoying. This is what I get with lpq at 10:03: Printer: lpd1@philonline Queue: 1 printable job Server

Re: FSpecs

2002-11-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
All the approaches suggested for this exercise assume that one need not worry about generating a UNIQUE 8.3 filename from the long filename. Is that assumption appropriate to Ben's real, underlying problem? Or does it risk overwriting a file with a later one (e.g., shortnam-abcd.txt and shortna

Re: Tkdesk Segmentation Fault

2002-11-14 Thread lawson_whitney
On 12 Nov 2002, Heimo Claasen wrote: > On a related note: > Some accident/repair event apparently had the effect to trash what > would be just one of the "Gdk" libraries. (At least, this was the only > fault discovered hitherto after the repair.) > > Indication is that just one application compla

Re: FSpecs

2002-11-14 Thread ichi
BEN RITCHEY wrote: > > Would it be possible in a Bash script to munge a > Long File Name to the older DOS 8.3 format? > In my case I need the first 8 characters and the > last 4 (.xxx) To which Paul Kraus replied: > It would be a lot easier to do it with gawk or perl. And hackob said: > Use c

Re: XFree86 crash log

2002-11-14 Thread Peter
On 13 Nov 2002, Peter wrote: > When I upgraded on my old PS1 from RH7.0 to RH7.1 I had a lot of problems, > like system hangs, X not opening and a lot of exchanges on this forum. I had > also SW7.? running and could not make SW8.0 run at all. > Finally someone asked what computer I have and I sa

Re: FSpecs

2002-11-14 Thread hackob
Use cut and/or gawk - Original Message - From: "BEN RITCHEY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 2:56 AM Subject: FSpecs > Originally to: ALL > > Would it be possible in a Bash script to munge a Long File Name to the older > DOS 8.3 format? > >

RE: FSpecs

2002-11-14 Thread Paul Kraus
It would be a lot easier to do it with gawk or perl. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-newbie-owner@;vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of BEN RITCHEY Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 3:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FSpecs Originally to: ALL Would it be possible in

FSpecs

2002-11-14 Thread BEN RITCHEY
Originally to: ALL Would it be possible in a Bash script to munge a Long File Name to the older DOS 8.3 format? In my case I need the first 8 characters and the last 4 (.xxx) ... the resulting string would then be used as an argument for another command. :) -- Keep the faith, : Benhttp

Re: login error

2002-11-14 Thread Elias Athanasopoulos
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:57:44AM +0200, Petre Bandac wrote: > Inconsistency detected by ld.so:dynamic-link.h:62: elf_get_dynamic_info: > Assertion '! bad dynamic tag"' failed > > this is the message I get after I type something at the login: prompt (it > doesn't bother to prompt the second lin

RE: ftp issues

2002-11-14 Thread Little, Chris
i got it solved. ran out of space on the receiving device. > -Original Message- > From: Ray Olszewski [mailto:ray@;comarre.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ftp issues > > > This report is far to little to go on. > > First, give us

Re: Book Recommendations

2002-11-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 10:32 PM 11/14/02 +0200, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:51:55AM -0500, dashielljt wrote: > advanced reference book. All I have to say about Knuth is that it would > have been nice if he had put the necessary fortran or source in that large > book to build the tools for

Re: Book Recommendations

2002-11-14 Thread Elias Athanasopoulos
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:51:55AM -0500, dashielljt wrote: > advanced reference book. All I have to say about Knuth is that it would > have been nice if he had put the necessary fortran or source in that large > book to build the tools for his unique programming language. I didn't It's an algor

Re: ftp issues

2002-11-14 Thread Gavin Laking
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:23:12 -0600 "Little, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > trying to ftp an oracle export. this happens > > 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for expKIDSaa.20021110.dmp > (1048576000 bytes). > 6% |* > | 63560 KB 775.

Re: ftp issues

2002-11-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
This report is far to little to go on. First, give us the background. Where is the ftp server? Why do you need to connect to it in passive mode? What OS and ftp server does the remote server run? At the client end, what OS and ftp client? As someone else also asked, is client-side disk space a

ftp issues

2002-11-14 Thread Little, Chris
trying to ftp an oracle export. this happens ftp> get expKIDSaa.20021110.dmp local: expKIDSaa.20021110.dmp remote: expKIDSaa.20021110.dmp 227 Entering Passive Mode (10,5,20,30,18,180) 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for expKIDSaa.20021110.dmp (1048576000 bytes). 6% |* | 63560 KB 77

Re: ftp issues

2002-11-14 Thread Mike Dresser
> ftp: expKIDSaa.20021110.dmp: short write > 6% |* disk full? Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.li

Re: SSH - Windows XP Pro

2002-11-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 08:57 AM 11/14/02 -0500, Paul Kraus wrote: I am running Windows XP Pro, SSH Secure Shell (TM) Version 3 Build 267. It works great except the arrow keys as well as the way backspace and del work. The arrow key generate characters and del and backspace don't work right either (this is consistent

SSH - Windows XP Pro

2002-11-14 Thread Paul Kraus
I am running Windows XP Pro, SSH Secure Shell (TM) Version 3 Build 267. It works great except the arrow keys as well as the way backspace and del work. The arrow key generate characters and del and backspace don't work right either (this is consistent with telnet). Is there a way I can fix this? I

Re: Book Recommendations

2002-11-14 Thread dashielljt
Well the K&R stuff in The C programming language is intermediate and advanced reference book. All I have to say about Knuth is that it would have been nice if he had put the necessary fortran or source in that large book to build the tools for his unique programming language. I didn't find that i