Post #147,936
3/23/04 6:48:35 PM
3/23/04 6:50:13 PM
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man?!?
Just because you're "familiar with all levels of UNIX administration", doesn't mean you actually use one....
;-)
And besides, until they allow us to start up 'man' with 'less' instead of 'more', man will forever remain the vi of help!
(But thanks for the info, Scott...Filed appropriately in the "When I finally get Linux lit at home" file!)
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating that facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
Edited by jb4
March 23, 2004, 06:50:13 PM EST
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Post #147,937
3/23/04 6:49:16 PM
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Then I suspect you don't qualify anyway... ;-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #147,938
3/23/04 6:51:53 PM
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Guilty as charged....
But I'm chomping at the bit for a useful 2.6 kernel distro...so I can start prosyletising the masses to use Linux in the embedded space (where I work!).
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating that facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #147,939
3/23/04 6:53:28 PM
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Debian.
aptitude install kernel-image-2.6-686 (or kernel-image-2.6-k7 if you have an Athlon)
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #148,229
3/24/04 5:15:12 PM
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Just found out that SuSE 9.1's got it
Available in May (which is about as long as it'll take to get my wife to agree to let me spend the $90 (SMRP) on it...;-) )
And I don't mind spending money on Novell (even though the just about finished the job Micros~1 started on my beloved WordPerfect).
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating that facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #147,947
3/23/04 7:56:49 PM
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And we see that their filter worked
Any Unix admin who won't look in a man page doesn't deserve the job. Anyone who thinks that they are familiar with all levels of Unix administration who can't set up Cygwin if they don't have Linux, probably isn't as familiar as initially claimed.
And on my system, at least, man actually does use less. Not being a sysadmin, I don't know what the trick is. (Note, I'm not qualified for their job either.) But it didn't take much testing to verify that I have extensions in man that are from less...
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #147,975
3/23/04 8:54:24 PM
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two implementations of man, more or less
one gnu is less one Bell labs is more
thanx,
bill
"You're just like me streak. You never left the free-fire zone.You think aspirins and meetings and cold showers are going to clean out your head. What you want is God's permission to paint the trees with the bad guys. That wont happen big mon." Clete
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Post #147,979
3/23/04 8:58:42 PM
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That makes sense
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #148,179
3/24/04 1:39:25 PM
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$ echo $PAGER
less -R
--
Less Is More. In my book, About Face, I introduce over 50 powerful design axioms. This is one of them.
--Alan Cooper. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
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Post #148,190
3/24/04 2:30:51 PM
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That can't be it
$PAGER isn't set locally.
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #148,191
3/24/04 2:48:22 PM
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Then you have sensible default
I tried to set it to "more", and more was used.
That's how things are supposed to work. PAGER, EDITOR and there probably are more.
--
Less Is More. In my book, About Face, I introduce over 50 powerful design axioms. This is one of them.
--Alan Cooper. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
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Post #148,232
3/24/04 5:18:08 PM
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How ironic your .sig is in this thread.....**giggle**
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating that facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #148,231
3/24/04 5:17:10 PM
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As I already admitted to Scott...
...I don't even pretend to be qualified.
(Although, it would be an interesting exercise to pretend to be qualified, and find out how far I get...)
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating that facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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