On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 09:49:30PM -0500, Albert Lee wrote:
Anyone using the original Bourne sh *interactively* is in for a world
of pain anyway (speaking as someone who often had to before the ksh93
replacement). I think relying on tilde expansion can can be considered
good practice for the
On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 21:49:30 -0500
Albert Lee tr...@forkgnu.org wrote:
I think relying on tilde expansion can can be considered
good practice for the interactive use case.
Tilde expansion doesn't work if there are quotes around the path, and if you
search the forum, you will find instances
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 18:17, Albert Lee tr...@forkgnu.org wrote:
The instructions were intended to give some context for users who
might not be familiar with the ~ expansion.
Using {$HOME} would be more portable. The Bourne shell (/bin/sh) on
Solaris (9/10 - OpenSolaris defaulted to ksh)
Correction:
${HOME}
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:05, Gert van den Berg wine-de...@mohag.net wrote:
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 18:17, Albert Lee tr...@forkgnu.org wrote:
The instructions were intended to give some context for users who
might not be familiar with the ~ expansion.
Using {$HOME} would be more portable.
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:14:07AM +0200, Gert van den Berg wrote:
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 10:05, Gert van den Berg wine-de...@mohag.net wrote:
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 18:17, Albert Lee tr...@forkgnu.org wrote:
The instructions were intended to give some context for users who
might not be
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Gert van den Berg wine-de...@mohag.net wrote:
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 18:17, Albert Lee tr...@forkgnu.org wrote:
The instructions were intended to give some context for users who
might not be familiar with the ~ expansion.
Using {$HOME} would be more portable.
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Vitaliy Margolen
wine-de...@kievinfo.com wrote:
On 02/03/2011 09:17 AM, Albert Lee wrote:
The instructions were intended to give some context for users who
might not be familiar with the ~ expansion.
Then mention that if you must. ~ is used in number of other
On 02/05/2011 07:54 PM, Albert Lee wrote:
Instead, I am suggesting reducing the complexity of the solution,
Multiple expansions, redirections and use of xargs is hardly a
simplification of a script with 2 parameters.
Again, we are not talking about advanced skills here. We talking about users
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Vitaliy Margolen
wine-de...@kievinfo.com wrote:
On 02/02/2011 09:52 PM, Albert Lee wrote:
I meant 'cd' is the command preceding this one in the block this is a
part of, if you look at the context.
Then you should remove that cd instead. Starting instructions
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:17:39AM -0500, Albert Lee wrote:
?It's exec(2)'ed so it doesn't matter what the program is.
Basically run in a shell. So you need an extra wrapper (env) why?
To handle PATH search, since Wine requires an absolute path. This is a
common trick used for
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:32 PM, David Laight da...@l8s.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:17:39AM -0500, Albert Lee wrote:
?It's exec(2)'ed so it doesn't matter what the program is.
Basically run in a shell. So you need an extra wrapper (env) why?
To handle PATH search, since
On 02/03/2011 09:17 AM, Albert Lee wrote:
The instructions were intended to give some context for users who
might not be familiar with the ~ expansion.
Then mention that if you must. ~ is used in number of other places in FAQ,
and all over the net. Please keep it simple.
It's a fairly
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:18:40 -0500
Albert Lee tr...@forkgnu.org wrote:
I notice you have reverted my edits to the FAQ on the wiki (
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ?action=info ). As I was trying to clarify
the shell metacharacter information and operating system/platform
support, and add new
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Rosanne DiMesio dime...@earthlink.net wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:18:40 -0500
Albert Lee tr...@forkgnu.org wrote:
I notice you have reverted my edits to the FAQ on the wiki (
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ?action=info ). As I was trying to clarify
the shell
I notice you reverted the changes after I addressed these issues, care
to explain why?
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Albert Lee tr...@forkgnu.org wrote:
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Vitaliy vita...@kievinfo.com wrote:
On 01/29/2011 12:21 PM, Dan Kegel wrote:
Hi Albert,
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 10:09:16 -0500
Albert Lee tr...@forkgnu.org wrote:
The Open Group even more strongly objects to the phrase Unix-like.
They also state explicitly on their website that Linux is not Unix.
http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/flavors_of_unix.html
Ozan's suggestion of
On 02/02/2011 08:10 AM, Albert Lee wrote:
I notice you reverted the changes after I addressed these issues, care
to explain why?
See my response from yesterday.
Vitaliy.
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Vitaliy Margolen
wine-de...@kievinfo.com wrote:
On 02/01/2011 09:47 PM, Albert Lee wrote:
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Vitaliyvita...@kievinfo.com wrote:
-cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files
+cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files
This will break if current
On 02/02/2011 09:52 PM, Albert Lee wrote:
I meant 'cd' is the command preceding this one in the block this is a
part of, if you look at the context.
Then you should remove that cd instead. Starting instructions from go to
your home directory just to jump somewhere else doesn't make much sense.
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Vitaliy vita...@kievinfo.com wrote:
On 01/29/2011 12:21 PM, Dan Kegel wrote:
Hi Albert,
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ?action=diffrev2=384rev1=383 looks
like it was a pretty big edit.
Try smaller ones, and try to do just one kind of change per edit.
That, and
On 02/01/2011 09:47 PM, Albert Lee wrote:
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Vitaliyvita...@kievinfo.com wrote:
-cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files
+cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files
This will break if current directory is not $HOME.
'cd' immediately precedes this.
That still doesn't make the
On 01/29/2011 12:21 PM, Dan Kegel wrote:
Hi Albert,
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ?action=diffrev2=384rev1=383 looks
like it was a pretty big edit.
Try smaller ones, and try to do just one kind of change per edit.
That, and the fact that some changes where questionable, and broken:
-cd
Hi Vitaliy,
I notice you have reverted my edits to the FAQ on the wiki (
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ?action=info ). As I was trying to clarify
the shell metacharacter information and operating system/platform
support, and add new file association instructions, I would like to
know why this
Hi Albert,
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ?action=diffrev2=384rev1=383 looks
like it was a pretty big edit.
Try smaller ones, and try to do just one kind of change per edit.
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