Dilwyn Jones wrote:
A couple of questions for the more Linux-minded members of this list,
to help me with a QL conversion:
1. What is an RFC?
The "Request For Comment" mechanism does indeed date from the very start
of networking. You can probably look up the history in detail somewhere,
but it g
> BTW, I'm still around. Between work and entering my second year as
> President of a local non-profit Museum, I'm been too busy for QL
things.
> Still follow the list though.
>
> Tim Swenson
Good to hear you're still around, Tim.
And thanks to everyone who helped with replies on RFC and RC.
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At 11:49 AM 6/26/2003 +0100, you wrote:
1. What is an RFC?
Norman is correct in his explanation of a Request For Comments. RFC's came
about for implementation for the Internet. Various Internet "standards"
were introduced as an RFC. The RFC's are used as a yardstick to determine
compliance.
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I
think the rc files under linux are more configuration files for programs. The
'rc' does indeed stand for re
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 12:11, Norman Dunbar wrote:
*.rc = Possibly a rescource script for a program. If I'm not mistaken, came
from Windows and you created a text file describing a dialogue or menu which
was input to a resource compiler and the output was then bound to the
compiled executable.
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Sorry Dilwyn,
*.rc could also be a script or ini file read in by some Linux application
which defines various options etc that the user has selected for their
preferences. In the qascade_rc example you gave, this file probably holds
your Quascade menu definitions.
Try reading in it a text edito
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From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [ql-users] 2 questions
A couple of questions for the more Linux-minded members of this list,
to help me with a QL conversion:
1. What is an RFC?
2. What exactly is an
A couple of questions for the more Linux-minded members of this list,
to help me with a QL conversion:
1. What is an RFC?
2. What exactly is an _rc file (presumably like qascade_rc, the
runtime control file or something like that?)
Just a brief explanation and what the letters stand for, please
