Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-09-04 Thread Richard Hector
On 1/09/21 3:32 am, Greg Wooledge wrote: In bash, which is *not* a shell builtin -- it's a separate program, /usr/bin/which. Well _that_ took a while to parse correctly :-) I know bash is not a shell builtin, that would be weird ... Cheers, Richard

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-09-01 Thread Anssi Saari
Steve Dondley writes: > I'm using zsh. > > What am I missing? In zsh, run rehash. Or start a new terminal.

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
"sudo which hash" shows nothing. Not sure whey. sudo is an external program, which launches other external programs. When you type "sudo which hash", your shell (zsh) forks a child, and that child executes "sudo". sudo does its authentication/authorization dance, and then executes "which ha

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 02:20:12PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > Ok, it is there after all, as a built-in. I was mindlessly trying "sudo hash > -d fzf". I guess trying with sudo doesn't work. > > "sudo which hash" shows nothing. Not sure whey. sudo is an external program, which launches other ext

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
(tl;dr: use type, not which) OK, thanks.

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
There's `hash -r' for that (bash, dash). I'd bet that zsh has something along that lines, too. Cheers - t Ok, it is there after all, as a built-in. I was mindlessly trying "sudo hash -d fzf". I guess trying with sudo doesn't work. "sudo which hash" shows nothing. Not sure whey.

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread tomas
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 11:19:10AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > > >This sounds like a stale-hash situation. According to my understanding, > >the shell will typically keep a cache of what path it found a given > >command at when it checked for that command in $PATH, so it > >doesn't have > >to re

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 11:32:12AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > The "hash" command does not appear to even be installed on my system, even > with sudo, maybe because I'm using zsh. But I did a little googling around > and found this tip: unicorn:~$ zsh greg@unicorn ~ % type hash hash is a shell b

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 10:58:12AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > However, "which fzf" reports the /usr/bin as the location: > > /usr/bin/fzf > > I'm using zsh. unicorn:~$ zsh greg@unicorn ~ % type which which is a shell builtin Zsh is caching the old location, and because "which" is a shell bui

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-08-31 11:19 AM, Steve Dondley wrote: This sounds like a stale-hash situation. According to my understanding, the shell will typically keep a cache of what path it found a given command at when it checked for that command in $PATH, so it doesn't have to re-do the filesystem accesses on

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
This sounds like a stale-hash situation. According to my understanding, the shell will typically keep a cache of what path it found a given command at when it checked for that command in $PATH, so it doesn't have to re-do the filesystem accesses on every run of the command; this mapping of kn

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-08-31 at 10:58, Steve Dondley wrote: > OK, so I dropped the new fzf into /usr/local/bin. I confirmed it is the > correct version with: > > admin@ip-172-30-0-226 /usr/local/bin >> $ ./fzf --version > 0.27.2 (e086f0b) > > "echo $PATH" reports: > > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
OK, so I dropped the new fzf into /usr/local/bin. I confirmed it is the correct version with: admin@ip-172-30-0-226 /usr/local/bin $ ./fzf --version 0.27.2 (e086f0b) "echo $PATH" reports: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games So it looks like any binary in /usr/local/bin should load fir

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-08-31 10:48 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 10:45:50AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: Now I'm just wondering if it would be better to keep the old fzf around and put the new fzf into a directory that $PATH loads before /usr/bin. I'm thinking this might be the proper way of

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 10:45:50AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > Now I'm just wondering if it would be better to keep the old fzf around and > put the new fzf into a directory that $PATH loads before /usr/bin. I'm > thinking this might be the proper way of doing this instead of my quick > hack. Ye

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
Either way, the simplicity of the tool (in terms of it being a single binary artifact that is deployed) makes it unlikely that you would encounter any issues in doing this. Regards, -Roberto OK, thank you, Roberto. fzf comes with some shell integration tools like key bindings that can be inst

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
Their build tooling seems very sparse. In particular, it does not support DESTDIR or PREFIX variables. However, that might be OK in this case, as it appears to only produce and install a single artifact: a binary called fzf. If I were in your position, I would run 'make' and then manually pl

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 09:07:59AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > Running bullseye with fzf package 0.24.3-1+b6. > > Newer versions of fzf (> .27.) have some advanced abilities I'd like to use > but newer versions are not available in backports (at least not that I could > tell) > > I'm thinking o

Re: tips to export as pdf

2011-12-29 Thread Claudius Hubig
lina wrote: >Thanks, I do notice the PDF printer and also unchecked the "Print page >headers" >but after click print, >I don't know which/where the newly-printed PDF? >sounds silly, I checked the currently working directory and also the >possible directories, but none. Try ~/PDF, that’s where t

Re: tips to export as pdf

2011-12-29 Thread lina
On Thursday 29,December,2011 04:02 PM, Ashton Fagg wrote: On 29/12/11 17:19, lina wrote: Print to file is a cool choice. but how can I get rid of the head line: File: /home/lina/Desktop/.doc Page 1 of 4 in the output file. Very easily. In gedit, go to File->Print, select the CUPS PDF prin

Re: tips to export as pdf

2011-12-29 Thread lina
On Thursday 29,December,2011 04:02 PM, Ashton Fagg wrote: On 29/12/11 17:19, lina wrote: Print to file is a cool choice. but how can I get rid of the head line: File: /home/lina/Desktop/.doc Page 1 of 4 in the output file. Very easily. In gedit, go to File->Print, select the CUPS PDF prin

Re: tips to export as pdf

2011-12-29 Thread Ashton Fagg
On 29/12/11 17:19, lina wrote: Print to file is a cool choice. but how can I get rid of the head line: File: /home/lina/Desktop/.doc Page 1 of 4 in the output file. Very easily. In gedit, go to File->Print, select the CUPS PDF printer. Then go to the "Text Editor" tab. From there you can

Re: tips to export as pdf

2011-12-28 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 29 December 2011 07:34:21 lina wrote: > On Thursday 29,December,2011 02:57 PM, Lisi wrote: > > On Thursday 29 December 2011 06:22:36 lina wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have one file, I wish it can be saved as pdf, > >> > >> mainly keep it's present formate (the original space) from gedit

Re: tips to export as pdf

2011-12-28 Thread lina
On Thursday 29,December,2011 02:57 PM, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2011 06:22:36 lina wrote: Hi, I have one file, I wish it can be saved as pdf, mainly keep it's present formate (the original space) from gedit view. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B93SVRfpVVg3NjA0ZDk5ZmQtODZiMC00ZWM

Re: tips to export as pdf

2011-12-28 Thread lina
On Thursday 29,December,2011 03:09 PM, Ashton Fagg wrote: On 29/12/11 16:22, lina wrote: Hi, I have one file, I wish it can be saved as pdf, mainly keep it's present formate (the original space) from gedit view. If you install the cups-pdf package you will be able to "print" to a PDF strai

Re: tips to export as pdf

2011-12-28 Thread Ashton Fagg
On 29/12/11 16:22, lina wrote: Hi, I have one file, I wish it can be saved as pdf, mainly keep it's present formate (the original space) from gedit view. If you install the cups-pdf package you will be able to "print" to a PDF straight from gedit, just as if you were printing it on a piece

Re: tips to export as pdf

2011-12-28 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 29 December 2011 06:22:36 lina wrote: > Hi, > > I have one file, I wish it can be saved as pdf, > > mainly keep it's present formate (the original space) from gedit view. > > > https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B93SVRfpVVg3NjA0ZDk5ZmQtODZiMC00ZWM2LTlkZD >ItYjg0N2U2YWRhZWE1 > > Thanks for

Re: Tips for compiling VirtualBox OSE on lenny

2010-02-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 05:34:09PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 07:05:33PM +0500, surreal wrote: > > I compiled VirtualBox OSE from source on my machine. > > curious to know why you don't use virtualbox, precompile debs ? [snip] -- "Well, that's going to be up t

Re: Tips for compiling VirtualBox OSE on lenny

2010-02-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 07:05:33PM +0500, surreal wrote: > I compiled VirtualBox OSE from source on my machine. > > Everything went fine, till I got an error from VirtualBox - > libpython2.6.sonot found. > > then I did the following - > > r...@indiaforce:/usr/local/lib# locate libpython2.6.

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-31 Thread Steve Lamb
Vikki Roemer wrote: > One thing people have told me (which I haven't tried yet, so I can't give a > firsthand opinion on) is to run a proxy because pages that you go to often > load faster. As I said, I haven't used any, so I can't give a recommendation. Even better, run Squid + Adzapper. Bl

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 06:11:46PM -0700, Darrell Bellerive wrote: > I will soon be moving into a house in the rural country. Nice place > except no ADSL or cable Internet services. Until I can get a wireless link > going, I will be forced to use dial-up Internet access. Residents in the > area rep

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Sean Davis
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:21:34AM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > "Basajaun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One question I would like to make myself (I mean... not _to_ myself, > > hehehe) is: how does one get the modem not to produce its annoying > > noises with pon? > > There is an AT comma

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Katipo
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:40:12 +0200, Derrick Hudson wrote: | and keeping my Debian stable system up to date. Do it at night. 'Aptitude update' before bedtime, then 'aptitude upgrade' as you're heading off to bed. Wake up in the morning and it's all done. Debian can do it all by itself.

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Katipo
Derrick Hudson wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 06:11:46PM -0700, Darrell Bellerive wrote: | I will soon be moving into a house in the rural country. Best dial-up modems in the world are... http://www.maestro.com.au/special%20modems.htm In the country you have special situations that gift y

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel B.
Darrell Bellerive wrote: Can anyone share some tips, tricks, or favorite applications to increase the useability of a dial-up Internet connection? Set up auto-dialing. Maintain a local Debian mirror (so when you decide to install or upgrade a package you can install it right away (without hav

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Yuri Gorshkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derrick Hudson wrote: BTW, the exact command to make (almost) all Hayes-compatible modems quiet is ATM0L0. I suggest you to make your init-string something like AT&F1M0L0 (add any local customizations here). Well, I live in Russia where dial-up access

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:40:12 +0200, Derrick Hudson wrote: >| and keeping my Debian stable system up to date. > > Use a cron job such as > > @daily root aptitude update >/dev/null && aptitude -d -y u= > pgrade >/dev/null If you track stable/sarge then there won't be many new/upad

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 07:14:32AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: | Darrell Bellerive wrote: | > Can anyone share some tips, tricks, or favorite applications to increase | > the useability of a dial-up Internet connection? | | Just remember this: On an infinite timeline bandwidth is also infinite. ;

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 06:11:46PM -0700, Darrell Bellerive wrote: | I will soon be moving into a house in the rural country. Nice. I like the countryside too :-). Last night my dad showed me an article about the company CrossUSA that purposely hires software people out in the boonies. It's a c

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Darrell Bellerive wrote: > Can anyone share some tips, tricks, or favorite applications to increase > the useability of a dial-up Internet connection? Just remember this: On an infinite timeline bandwidth is also infinite. ;) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your sh

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Byron Hillis
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:21, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > "Basajaun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > One question I would like to make myself (I mean... not _to_ myself, > > hehehe) is: how does one get the modem not to produce its annoying > > noises with pon? > > There is an AT command you can send to

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Kai Grossjohann
"Basajaun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One question I would like to make myself (I mean... not _to_ myself, > hehehe) is: how does one get the modem not to produce its annoying > noises with pon? There is an AT command you can send to the modem to tell it about the noise. I believe the options

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Basajaun
Darrell Bellerive wrote: [snip] > Can anyone share some tips, tricks, or favorite applications to increase > the useability of a dial-up Internet connection? [snip] I have found (command-line) pon/poff to be (far) more reliable than (graphical) kppp. Well, actually is probably a configuration i

RE: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-29 Thread Byron Hillis
> > Can anyone share some tips, tricks, or favorite applications to > > increase the useability of a dial-up Internet connection? Lots of patience, overnight downloading, and a friend with a good broadband connection. Byron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-29 Thread j Mak
I also use usrobotics external modem. When I installed sarge, I simply filled out the pppconfig wizard and that was basically it. After that you can type 'pon' in the terminal to connect and 'poff' to disconnect from the internet. If you run kde you can use its graphic Internet connection softwar

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Can I make screen 'copy' its output into xterms scrollback buffer? I find the following lines in my .screenrc: --- # To get screen to add lines to xterm's scrollback buffer, uncomment the # following termcapinfo line which tells xterm to use the normal screen buffer # (which has scrollback), not

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 19:00:18 +0200, Will Trillich wrote: > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or > settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not > picky. I use a lightly mofified version of Sven Guckes' configuration, the only interesting bits I've got ar

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 07:03, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alternatively (or in addition), is it easy to start xterms on the > > different virtual desktops - I can specify x,y,w,h but can I specify > > virtual desktop? > > This depends on the window manag

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 01 July 2004 6:18 pm, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > n the keybindings section, there's a statement like this: > bindkey -k k7 detatch > > Shouldn't it be: bindkey -k k7 detach > > (spelling of detatch?) Indeed it should, sorry. Fixed now... -- "If women knew, if they even had the sli

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Brad Sims wrote: > Feel free to take a gander at my .screenrc at: > http://home.insightbb.com/~bmsims1/Scripts/Screenrc.html > > Let me know if anything isn't entirely clear to ya. I wrote this > for plain people like me Hi Brad, in the keybindings section, there's a statement like this: bindke

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 01 July 2004 3:51 pm, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > In gnome-terminal, I use CTRL-PGUP and CTRL-PGDN to cycle between tabs. > > How can I get screen to accept keyboard shortcuts for these two cycling > functions? Hrm I am not sure of the keybindings for your need but the .screenrc commands

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 01 July 2004 11:53 am, Will Trillich wrote: > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or > settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not > picky. > > inquiring minds want to know. :) Well I got tired of .screenrcs found via google being so poorly

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I get screen to accept keyboard shortcuts for these two cycling > functions? You can use "bind" and "bindkey" for screen. > And back on xterms - does anyone know something that doesn't have the > redraw problems of gnome-terminal, yet is

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 06:38, Thomas Adam wrote: > If the OP were to be more specific as > to the *kind* of things he wants to do with screen, then I can draft > together some of my own notes. I do have a question: In gnome-terminal, I use CTRL-PGUP and CTRL-PGDN to cycle between tabs. How can I

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That wasn't very nice of you Adam. You may have notices that Will The name's Thomas. Adam is my surname. :) > As long as your in a bad mood, did you notice that Will had the Well the problem there is that with e-mail being ambiguous, you read it ent

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Thomas Adam([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > --- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or > > settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not > > picky. > > There's a _plethora_ of information abou

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Jul 01 at 06:00PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases > > or settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... > > we're not picky. > > There's a _plethora_ of information about this a

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Robert L. Harris
Have you looked at "split mode" ? In my .screenrc I have this: bind b eval "split" "resize -13" "select 19" "redisplay" "focus" "select 0" "redisplay" "redisplay" That creates a new window at the top of my screen and puts screen 19 in it then puts screen 0 in the bottom. You can do a "ctrl

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or > settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not > picky. There's a _plethora_ of information about this already -- search the net. -- Thomas Adam = "The Linux Wee

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 09:46:32AM -0500, Todd Pytel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 06:36:56 +0100 > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Waddyaknow (not much, you?). PLIP works. Sorta. > > > > I get some long periods of timeout, but currently have an ssh session

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-06 Thread Todd Pytel
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 06:36:56 +0100 "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Waddyaknow (not much, you?). PLIP works. Sorta. > > I get some long periods of timeout, but currently have an ssh session > into the box. I don't know if this is going to be feasible... > > I've played a tad with

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:19:33AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm trying to bootstrap an old 486 Thinkpad. It's got two PCMCIA slots, > > and might make a decent gateway. > Why not run a laplink cable

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:29:21AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:19:33AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I'm trying to bootstrap an old 486 Thinkpad. It's got two PCMCIA s

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:19:33AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm trying to bootstrap an old 486 Thinkpad. It's got two PCMCIA slots, > > and might make a decent gateway. > > Never throw working hardwa

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm trying to bootstrap an old 486 Thinkpad. It's got two PCMCIA slots, > and might make a decent gateway. Never throw working hardware away :-) > First problem: I can't get external video off the system, not sure why. > Running

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:05:12AM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:56:48PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > It would also be helpful if I could do the old trick of : > > > > cat > > > EOF > > > > ...but this method performs shell ex

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:56:48PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > It would also be helpful if I could do the old trick of : > > cat > EOF > > ...but this method performs shell expansions on the content. If you quote EOF, it doesn't: $ cat < $BASH_VERSION > EOF 2.05b.0

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:17:18PM +0300, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > After this point, you can transfer shar archives (which use uudecode, > > hence the above step), allowing for ASCII mode transfers. > > > >

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-01 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > After this point, you can transfer shar archives (which use uudecode, > hence the above step), allowing for ASCII mode transfers. > I am missing something. Can't you uuencode every file and transfer it in the same way? >

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm still looking for a good method for doing file transfers. I haven't > used kermit, x/y/zmodem, etc., for about fifteen years, so I'm not sure > what the options are here. minicom supports x/y/zmodem once you install lrzsz on b

Re: Tips for moving to XEmacs

2003-01-28 Thread Glyn Millington
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Argh, how many times have I attempted this move! > > I'd like to make a push to move to XEmacs as my main editor (from a > Windows editor Program File Editor). It's hard to move to a new editor > with a large learning curve when there's work to be done.

Re: Tips for moving to XEmacs

2003-01-28 Thread Glyn Millington
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to make a push to move to XEmacs as my main editor (from a > Windows editor Program File Editor). It's hard to move to a new editor > with a large learning curve when there's work to be done. Good plan! I noted at least one reference to a .ema

Re: Tips for moving to XEmacs

2003-01-28 Thread David Z Maze
"Charlie Reiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:15 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Tips for moving to XEmacs >> $ dpkg -l | grep emacs >> ii emacsen-common 1.4.15 Comm

Re: Tips for moving to XEmacs

2003-01-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Bill" == Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bill> - How do I get my button 4 and 5 to scroll (the mouse wheel Bill> works in other programs)? In your ~/.emacs: (require 'mwheel) (mwheel-install) I'm not attempting to answer your other questions since they seem to have be de

Re: Tips for moving to XEmacs

2003-01-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
For Perl, definitely install and use cperl-mode, which will let you do lots of work with brace matching and indenting. I like syntax highlighting, but you can always turn it off by not invoking global-font-lock-mode. Best, Andy

RE: Tips for moving to XEmacs

2003-01-28 Thread Charlie Reiman
> -Original Message- > From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Tips for moving to XEmacs > > > > Argh, how many times have I attempted this move! > > I'd like to make a push to move to XEmacs as my main edi

Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-25 Thread David Purton
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Well, you're the second person who's said exactly that - all I can say is > that when I tried, I couldn't get cda to play an audio cd on /dev/scd1 > (the ide-scsi device) but it immediately worked on /dev/hdc when I removed > the modules. I will now try

Tip for reading CD / Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-24 Thread Timeboy
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:45:57 -0400 (EDT), Andrew Perrin wrote: > **I've posted some tips on how I've got CD writing working on my debian > ** machine, in the hopes they may be vaguely useful to others. My specific > ** desire was to be able to switch between audio cd playing (which, as far as > *

Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Andrew Perrin wrote on Fri Aug 24, 2001 um 03:24:08PM: > It simply didn't work, so I made the (probably wrong) assumption that > ide-scsi was incompatible with audio cd playing. Immediately upon > switching back to ide-cd, audio cd's worked fine, so I figured I'd solved > the problem. S

Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Andrew Perrin wrote on Fri Aug 24, 2001 um 09:45:57AM: > > > desire was to be able to switch between audio cd playing (which, as far as > > I could tell required that I NOT be using ide-scsi) and cd-rw burning > > What is your problem with i

Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Andrew Perrin wrote on Fri Aug 24, 2001 um 09:45:57AM: > desire was to be able to switch between audio cd playing (which, as far as > I could tell required that I NOT be using ide-scsi) and cd-rw burning What is your problem with ide-scsi? I replaced ide-cd with ide-scsi in all my kerne

Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
Well, you're the second person who's said exactly that - all I can say is that when I tried, I couldn't get cda to play an audio cd on /dev/scd1 (the ide-scsi device) but it immediately worked on /dev/hdc when I removed the modules. I will now try again and report back as to whether my hack was ent

Re: Tips on IDE CD Writing under Debian

2001-08-24 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Andrew Perrin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've posted some tips on how I've got CD writing working on my debian > machine, in the hopes they may be vaguely useful to others. My specific > desire was to be able to switch between audio cd playing (which, as far as > I could tell required that I NO

Re: Tips

1997-01-22 Thread Behan Webster
> from a quick look, it seems that the format is pretty easy. There is a pair > of files, the "source" where all fortunes are just separated by a % sign and > a data file with the info for the files that is automatically created from the > former by strfile(8). It seems to be pretty straightforward

RE: Tips

1997-01-22 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Casper BodenCummins wrote: > I've been meaning to look at fortune to see whether it can easily handle > or be adapted to handle different databases of fortune cookies - such as > tips. I'm running low on free time just now, so does anyone have the Don't know about fortune...

Re: Tips

1997-01-22 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
> > Jonas Bofjall wrote: > > >On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Niels wrote: > > > > > Those anyone collecting Tips for debian? This is a good one for it... > > > > Another good one is if e2fsck says it cannot read the superblock of your > > > > Since it seems like nobody else does, I have noted these. > > s

RE: Tips

1997-01-22 Thread Casper BodenCummins
Jonas Bofjall wrote: >On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Niels wrote: > > > Those anyone collecting Tips for debian? This is a good one for it... > > Another good one is if e2fsck says it cannot read the superblock of your > > Since it seems like nobody else does, I have noted these. > still think that the Mic