Re: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes

2000-11-01 Thread Mike Adams
At 06:01 PM 11/2/00, you wrote: >Carroll, > >I thank God for the fact that Hell will NEVER freeze over and VB will >NEVER be ported to Linux. Why in the world would anyone want to foul the >water with manure like that is absolutely obscene from a programmers >perspective! Yes, VB is obscene...(I

Re: [newbie] Setup for Games

2000-10-28 Thread Mike Adams
At 11:44 PM 10/27/00, you wrote: >Sorry, This is a repost. Forgot to put in the subject. My apologies :-| > >Hi, > >I'm still very much a newbie and I wanted to know what do I need to do to >set up my system to play games. I'm running LM 7.1 (I do not have the ' >mandrake71-ext' CD ). My hardware

Re: [newbie] 7.2 Available in Stores???

2000-10-28 Thread Mike Adams
At 10:52 PM 10/27/00, you wrote: >Riker wrote: >>Gang: >> >>I sent out a message earlier but I don't think it made it to the list. I >>went >>to Wal-Mart tonight to buy my brother Mandrake 7.0, and while looking >>through >>the software isle I found Mandrake 7.2. When was this released? I though

Re: [newbie] Best to use RPMs ???

2000-10-27 Thread Mike Adams
At 05:39 PM 10/27/00, you wrote: > > In the Nov 2000 on page 38 is an article titled: "Where to Install My > > Products on Linux?". > >Mike...what magazine are you referring to here? I've heard about the FHS >but have yet to see the standard in document form. ...OOPS... Mea Culpa! Mea Maxima Cul

Re: [newbie] Best to use RPMs ???

2000-10-27 Thread Mike Adams
At 06:35 AM 10/27/00, you wrote: ...(snip,snip)... >The developers don't seem to be reading these books either which is >probably what drives the distros to try to solve the problems. One would >expect, in a pure Unix interpretation, for Acrobat reader to be installed >in /usr/local/bin. The re