On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:39:39AM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:56:42AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > but I don't do bind much.. just thought I'd tell Mike that nothing in > > the stupid computer is ???above his head???.. > > Thanks Chris for the vote of confidence. > Since I've programmed in awk, several versions of basic (5?), C, > Forth, fortran and Perl and debugged assembly and Pascal and > built or repaired hundreds of processor boards, I don't really > think anything to do with computers is beyond my reach. > > That said the complexities of 'nix is a broad subject and though > I've been a user for many years there is still so much I don't > know that it's easy to get overwhelmed. Rob's shortcut for instance: > uxterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > I've looked at the man pages for xterm and uxterm and can see that > '-fn' sets the font but have yet to find the explaination for the > '-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' part of that line. > I got that from xfontsel. I'm not an expert, so there may be a better way of describing the font.
I was away for a while and have some catching up to do. I'll try to provide more info later (I have to dig for it). (Sorry for the direct reply, Mike). -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110218182637.ga12...@aurora.owens.net
