Both of the suggested reasons exist for my situation (I have machines
that can't really afford the space and I have machines that could
'serve' the documentation for software that they don't have installed).
OTOH, I also appreciate the potential problems and the general increase
in complexity that
A good way to get familiar with the whole Linux programming thing is
to learn "Python", an interpreted language. It will be easier for you
to do real stuff in it. Once you are comfortable programming useful
stuff in Python, the transition to C will be easier. You can actually
then start rewritin
[You (Bill Leach)]
>Has the idea been discussed about seperating out more of the
>documentation packages from the executable packages?
>
>It has seemed to me that it would be a great benefit to many sysadms if
>most packages like smail, sendmail, qmail, apache, etc. had their
>documentation in sep
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > on a hamm system? I currently only have a bo system, should I apply for an
> > account on master and do the package generate their? (is it a hamm system)
> > Or should I wait until boot disks for hamm become available?
Gawk. I meant of course "do the
On Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 12:08:45AM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> Okay, I've managed to build my .deb and the related source packages.
> Something that I am confused about is the original source tar.gz - I
> initalliy had mtr-0.14.orig.tar.gz (which extracts in
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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Fook_Sheng Chan wrote:
> I wish to become a debian developer, but I don't know where to start.
> I can program in C, but I must admit that I'm not very good.
Probably the best place to start is the Developers' Corner
http://www.debian.org/d
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Yes that sounds useful. I know that your pdmenu supports popping
> > up a box to ask for parameters; I would assume that there's nothing
> > in the Debian menu system to tell the menu system to do this though
> > because it would no
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Yes that sounds useful. I know that your pdmenu supports popping
> up a box to ask for parameters; I would assume that there's nothing
> in the Debian menu system to tell the menu system to do this though
> because it would not be supported by the various X window managers
>
On Fri, Feb 20, 1998 at 12:06:32AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> The only problem is, if you just run mtr with no parameters, you don't get
> the window at all. So to appear on the menu system, you'd need something
> like "mtr localhost", which pops up a useless mtr to localhost, but you can
> then cha
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Is this for the menu system? This sort of tool tends to be command line
> driven (is mtr?); do these really belong in the menu system? None of
> my command line driven stuff have menu files (guavac, atp, ...)
The interesting thing about mtr is that the X interface to it cou
Hi
I wish to become a debian developer, but I don't know where to start.
I can program in C, but I must admit that I'm not very good.
Can someone guide me along?
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Has the idea been discussed about seperating out more of the
documentation packages from the executable packages?
It has seemed to me that it would be a great benefit to many sysadms if
most packages like smail, sendmail, qmail, apache, etc. had their
documentation in seperate packages that were s
On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 07:07:17PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Also what is the best place to put this kind of program? Apps/System,
> > Apps/Network or Apps/Misc?
> I'd suggest Apps/Network
Is this for the menu system? This sort of tool tends to be command line
driven (is mtr?); do these rea
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