For ee, since my first message I found by myself (!) the location of the source. I was thinking of recompiling it since I had problems when using ee from the console, and with sysinstall too. I've seen a question in this list about similar problems with pine. I suppose they both could be related to vi - so I'm impatient to read an answer to this question too.
For the suffixes I found a Linux man entry that describes all the suffixes at http://www.rt.com/man/suffixes.7.html.
I'll try your bookmarks right now !
Best regards
Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
There are several definitions of "open source". Assuming understanding
of the word "source", I like "software for which the source code is
available for reading at no cost beyond communication costs. It is
almost always proprietary, requiring payments of licensing fees or other
considerations for certain uses or being restricted from certain uses
altogether. It almost always may be republished as-is without payment.
Many people (often those who write it as "Open Source") like to add the
proviso that the source be licensed for execution (after translation),
derivation, and publishing of derivatives, for no payment other than
the cross-licensing of the deriver's copyrights under similar terms.
Not all Unix systems are open source. IBM and HP (and some others )
are still supporting their Unix systems, but I think they're hoping
to phase them out. Sun Microsystems is the main player, these days.
I install the complete sources (using "cvsup" as documented in the
FreeBSD Handbook), then find the directory with the source code (
eg, "locate -i ee.c" found it in /usr/src/usr.bin/ee/), enter that
directory, change the code, and run "make". IIRC, it may be then
be installed with "make install".
I'm afraid you'll just have to pick them up as you go or ask about a few
at a time. ".so" is "Shared Object (code libary)" (like DLL?); ".h" is
"include" header files for C/C++ code;
Any WWW searcher will find lots of info at all levels; here's one intro
http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/unix.html
Be sure to spend a few hours exploring www.freebsd.org if you're going
to try FreeBSD.
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