On 22-Jan-2012 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi, > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> This is a misguided, terrible idea in so many ways. > > Clarke Echols wrote: >> I agree with Ingo. Unix man pages are supposed to have a >> well-defined sequence and format. > > (Many, the majority?, don't comply on common Linux systems, > unfortunately.) > > Neither of you are allowing that Siteshwar may be doing this > for his own personal enjoyment, for learning more, for a project > to work on, or something that he'd like to use. > > bash(1) already has command_not_found_handle() and I'm sure > I've heard of something that displays help, e.g. attempts > `foo --help' on a keypress; perhaps that was with readline help. > Anyway, disliking the inelegance of it shouldn't curtail > Siteshwar's exploration. I did a half-baked Fortran-to-C in sh > when I was learning. :-) > > Cheers, Ralph.
Which reminds me of the time, back in the early 1980s, when I wrote a serial-terminal program for my then CP/M-80 machine. The BASIC that shipped with the machine was too slow for the phone-line serial connection (1200 baud at the time), so I wrote it in FORTRAN (the only compilable language I could obtain for the machine at the time). It worked OK. Then, later, I found a C compiler (Aztec C, if anyone remembers that)[*] and that worked even better (and was an interesting exercise in learning C). Ted. [*] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_C ------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> Date: 22-Jan-2012 Time: 17:51:45 This message was sent by XFMail -------------------------------------------------
