Re: [newbie] grep -r *.c doesn't find files

2001-08-12 Thread David E.Fox
On Sunday 12 August 2001 06:44 am, George Petri wrote: Surely, grep can do something this basic, can't it (didn't the author of grep write c programs too:)? I don't like find and its complexity very much. Recall that the tools in Unix are (or at least were at one point) designed to do one

Re: [newbie] Memory use

2001-07-22 Thread David E.Fox
On Monday 09 July 2001 08:10, you wrote: Would the amount of swap in use be a good benchmark to judge whether your system would benefit from more RAM? I mean, if in normal use you don't use any swap, then you have a very sufficient amount of RAM. Not necessarily. I have, for example, 256

Re: [newbie] New HDD

2001-07-14 Thread David E.Fox
On Monday 09 July 2001 13:19, you wrote: Well I reckoned that now that I recently built A Tbird 1.55 gig (wow) been runnin Linux on for years. I bought an OEM HDD that only came with IBM's version of ez-bios on a floppy ($135 from MegaHaus Dickinson, TX). Prices sure have come down. I

Re: [newbie] Chess

2001-07-11 Thread David E.Fox
On Sunday 01 July 2001 08:18, you wrote: Dear All, I downloaded a statically linked program called rgXnetchess_static that the author told me should work on my LM8. His well, that's pretty much all you need to do. Was it in a .tgz archive? Of course if so you need to unpack it. Static

Re: [newbie] Definitions

2001-07-11 Thread David E.Fox
On Monday 02 July 2001 11:12, you wrote: Link: link can have more than one meaning in the computer world. In this context (AFAICT) you want to know about the act of linking several parts of a computer program together to make one. (I'm not a C or C++ Right, but I think he was referring to

Re: [newbie] Drive filling up mysteriously

2001-04-16 Thread David E.Fox
On Sunday 15 April 2001 19:12, you wrote: seems like the first partition (hda1) is filling up and I don't know why? I dumped as many old log files as I felt safe doing (which Well, /var is definitely part of / in your setup, so I would look there, particularly in /var/log, see if there are

Re: [newbie] Sending abuse reports from kmail and knode

2001-04-08 Thread David E.Fox
On Saturday 07 April 2001 07:20, you wrote: Can anyone tell me how to set up Kmail and Knode to show a raw message, suitable for copying into an abuse report? You can tell kmail to show all the headers by clicking on View and Show All Headers. If you save the message into a file it will save