Re: [Siglinux] moving lotsa files to cdrom of iBook

2004-06-22 Thread Eric Irrgang
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Doc Shipley wrote: >William L. Jarrold wrote: >> ...any idea how to avoid that "Argument list too long" >> error? I have been meaning to send a separate note about >> that problem for weeks nowRecent hacks have >> suggested that something like this might work... >> >> for

Re: [Siglinux] moving lotsa files to cdrom of iBook

2004-06-22 Thread Doc Shipley
Eric Irrgang wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Doc Shipley wrote: William L. Jarrold wrote: ...any idea how to avoid that "Argument list too long" error? I have been meaning to send a separate note about that problem for weeks nowRecent hacks have suggested that something like this might work... fo

Re: iBook cd rom ? (was Re: [Siglinux] moving lotsa files to cdrom of iBook)

2004-06-22 Thread Doc Shipley
William L. Jarrold wrote: Thanks Doc. It is about time I groked xargs. And thanks for the pointer to that book. Finding the time and $$ to buy it are another difficult task. Meantime, can anyone out there tell me how to address the cdrom drive on an ibook. E.g. I want to do somethign like ... c

iBook cd rom ? (was Re: [Siglinux] moving lotsa files to cdrom of iBook)

2004-06-22 Thread William L. Jarrold
Thanks Doc. It is about time I groked xargs. And thanks for the pointer to that book. Finding the time and $$ to buy it are another difficult task. Meantime, can anyone out there tell me how to address the cdrom drive on an ibook. E.g. I want to do somethign like ... cp foo.text ...what is