Re: basename in backticks

2000-10-23 Thread Chris Abbey
seeing as how John and Pete both posted on this I thought I'd quickly let the list know the results of this... thanks to Mike's set -vx idea I've found the problem: the backtick substitution is higher priority than the {} substitution since one is handled by the shell and the other by find... so t

Re: Migration to Linux

2000-10-23 Thread Matt Wilson
As far as I can tell, the inventory is a SGI specific hardware management interface. In irixinv.c there is a static table that has dummy devices in it to maintain IRIX binary compatibility. This isn't an interface that Linux uses; you'll have to find a Linux interface to do what you want to do..

RE: Migration to Linux

2000-10-23 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Garboua Nahil Y Contr WRALC/LYSFE wrote: >Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:53:07 -0400 >From: Garboua Nahil Y Contr WRALC/LYSFE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="ISO-8859-1" >Subject: RE: Migration to Linux

Re: Migration to Linux

2000-10-23 Thread Thomas Dodd
Garboua Nahil Y Contr WRALC/LYSFE wrote: > > I am migrating applications from an SGI to a linux Platform --> "me and my > Big mouth" > Most of the Code is portable, yeah most. OKAY, here is what I'm looking > for. Sgi has a kernel functions to scan and initialized hardware inventory > list, hea

Re: Migration to Linux

2000-10-23 Thread jfm2
> > Okay folks, > pay attention Summerfield so you can grasp this --> ( smile) > > I got the kernel source code and this is what I found under > /include/asm-mips/inventory.h which define some of the structures that I > need to load up Hardware list similar to the found at mips/kernel/irixinv.c

Re: redhat-devel definition

2000-10-23 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Matt Fahrner wrote: >From the slew of messages about what "redhat-devel" should and shouldn't >be I still could divine exactly what is and what isn't supposed to be >here, nor could I get a clue by going to the list server. Can someone >enumerate exactly what should be posted

Re: basename in backticks

2000-10-23 Thread Mike A. Harris
On 23 Oct 2000, Alan Shutko wrote: >Date: 23 Oct 2000 09:20:28 -0400 >From: Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Subject: Re: basename in backticks > >John DeDourek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> If I'm right, I might instead invest

RE: Migration to Linux

2000-10-23 Thread Garboua Nahil Y Contr WRALC/LYSFE
Okay folks, pay attention Summerfield so you can grasp this --> ( smile) I got the kernel source code and this is what I found under ./include/asm-mips/inventory.h which define some of the structures that I need to load up Hardware list similar to the found at mips/kernel/irixinv.c my new quest

Re: redhat-devel definition

2000-10-23 Thread John Summerfield
> >From the slew of messages about what "redhat-devel" should and shouldn't > be I still could divine exactly what is and what isn't supposed to be > here, nor could I get a clue by going to the list server. Can someone > enumerate exactly what should be posted to this list (or point me to a > URL

Re: Migration to Linux

2000-10-23 Thread Matt Wilson
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 10:13:51PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > [summer@possum summer]$ cat /proc/pci | head /proc/pci is deprecated. Use /proc/bus/pci, and a nice library like the one from pciutils to parse it. Matt ___ Redhat-devel-list mail

Re: Migration to Linux

2000-10-23 Thread John Summerfield
> I am migrating applications from an SGI to a linux Platform --> "me and my > Big mouth" > Most of the Code is portable, yeah most. OKAY, here is what I'm looking > for. Sgi has a kernel functions to scan and initialized hardware inventory > list, header file "invent.h" Did anyone encounter a s

Re: redhat-devel definition

2000-10-23 Thread Jag
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Matt Fahrner wrote: > >From the slew of messages about what "redhat-devel" should and shouldn't > be I still could divine exactly what is and what isn't supposed to be > here, nor could I get a clue by going to the list server. Can someone > enumerate exactly what should be p

redhat-devel definition

2000-10-23 Thread Matt Fahrner
>From the slew of messages about what "redhat-devel" should and shouldn't be I still could divine exactly what is and what isn't supposed to be here, nor could I get a clue by going to the list server. Can someone enumerate exactly what should be posted to this list (or point me to a URL that says

Re: basename in backticks

2000-10-23 Thread Alan Shutko
John DeDourek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I'm right, I might instead investigate whether > your /bin/basename is somehow messed up; or maybe you're right that > it is that find is somehow not executing /bin/basename correctly. It's find. find /etc -exec sh -c 'echo {} `basename {}`' \; wor

Migration to Linux

2000-10-23 Thread Garboua Nahil Y Contr WRALC/LYSFE
I am migrating applications from an SGI to a linux Platform --> "me and my Big mouth" Most of the Code is portable, yeah most. OKAY, here is what I'm looking for. Sgi has a kernel functions to scan and initialized hardware inventory list, header file "invent.h" Did anyone encounter a similar fun

Re: basename in backticks

2000-10-23 Thread John DeDourek
Chris Abbey wrote: > > At 18:28 10/22/00 +1000, Tony Nugent wrote: > >On Sat Oct 21 2000 at 18:47, Chris Abbey wrote: > > > ln -s $fil `basename $fil` > I'm starting to suspect it's an issue with find... perhaps with the > choice of shell it's using for the -exec command, since as you point >

Re: basename in backticks (workaround)

2000-10-23 Thread Pete Peterson
I haven't figured out your basename problem other than to observe that I can reproduce it on Solaris as well. "basename" and "/bin/basename" produced the same results, so the built-in and the program were alike. As far as your ACTUAL problem doing the symlinks is concerned, you can just OMIT th

Re: 1021

2000-10-23 Thread kmb
Thanks for the 1021 rawhide tetex. I had a take home final and after spending many, many hours downloading from Belgium(I'm in NJ) and installing on top of 1004 instead of studying I discover that my tetex installation has no *.fmt files and I can't get initex latex.ini to work because of math ove