Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-18 Thread David Wright
On Sun 16 Jun 2019 at 22:50:28 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Richard Owlett composed on 2019-06-16 14:17 (UTC-0500): > > David Wright wrote: > > >> or, even easier, > > >>Use a LABEL to indicate the swap partition in all your own > ...> I can't parse that. > > I recommend learning to use L

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-17 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 9:06 PM David Wright wrote: > On Sun 16 Jun 2019 at 14:17:21 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > It's rather easy to work around this problem in one of two ways (at > least): > > > > Ways on order of {# users}**N { N < world_population} ;/ > > Eh? > He's claiming that

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 17/06/2019 à 04:50, Felix Miata a écrit : I recommend learning to use LABELs on all your filesystems. They are massively easier for humans to work with than UUIDs. You get to assign them in accordance with how your brain functions, e.g.: # LABEL=m12P01esp

Re: Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file]

2019-06-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association > > between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. > > The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for > >

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-16 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2019-06-16 14:17 (UTC-0500): > David Wright wrote: >> or, even easier, >>Use a LABEL to indicate the swap partition in all your own ...> I can't parse that. I recommend learning to use LABELs on all your filesystems. They are massively easier for humans to work

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-16 Thread David Wright
On Sun 16 Jun 2019 at 14:17:21 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/16/2019 11:03 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 08:15:24 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the > > >

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-16 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Jun 16, 2019, 2:17 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm not experimenting with the installation process, but with what I > want the result to be. > Those are 2 sides of the same coin. > >Does top show much use of swap anyway?) > > Not a parameter of my experiment's protocol. > As I d

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-16 Thread john doe
On 6/16/2019 9:17 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/16/2019 11:03 AM, David Wright wrote: >> On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 08:15:24 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: >>> On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association between a dir

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/16/2019 11:03 AM, David Wright wrote: On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 08:15:24 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on.

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 15 Jun 2019 at 08:15:24 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the > > association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical > > partition it is on. The file I'm looking for also iden

Re: Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file]

2019-06-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-06-15 15:33:37) > On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the > > association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical > > partition it is on. The file I'm looking for also identifies which >

Re: Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file]

2019-06-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/15/2019 11:55 AM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: ... If I had been looking for information one of them could provide, is there a URL that attempts to summarize such tools? i go in roughly this order. command line: man -k keyword apt-cache search keyword browser: goog

Re: Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file]

2019-06-15 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: ... > If I had been looking for information one of them could provide, is > there a URL that attempts to summarize such tools? i go in roughly this order. command line: man -k keyword apt-cache search keyword browser: google linux keyword songbird

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/15/2019 09:22 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 15/06/2019 à 15:15, Richard Owlett a écrit : I have one laptop explicitly set aside for experimenting with Debian in order to determine *MY* ideal system. To this end I may have a half dozen copies of Debian to chose from at boot. For my pur

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/06/2019 à 15:15, Richard Owlett a écrit : I have one laptop explicitly set aside for experimenting with Debian in order to determine *MY* ideal system. To this end I may have a half dozen copies of Debian to chose from at boot. For my purposes, the Debian installer has two annoyances:

Bonus answers - was [Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file]

2019-06-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap. TIA I was looking for /etc/

Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/14/2019 06:10 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap. TIA The filename I had forg

Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file

2019-06-14 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2019-06-14 06:10 (UTC-0500): > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association > between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. > The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap. You might wish

Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file

2019-06-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 14/06/2019 à 13:50, Richard Owlett a écrit : On 06/14/2019 06:20 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 14.06.19 06:10, Richard Owlett wrote: I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The file I'm l

Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file

2019-06-14 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Richard Owlett [2019-06-14 06:10 -0500]: > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association > between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The > file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap. There is a fantastic tool to

Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file

2019-06-14 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association > between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. > The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap. /etc/fstab songbird

Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file

2019-06-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/14/2019 06:20 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 14.06.19 06:10, Richard Owlett wrote: I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is use

Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file

2019-06-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/14/2019 06:20 AM, john doe wrote: On 6/14/2019 1:10 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for

Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file

2019-06-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Richard Owlett (2019-06-14 13:10:25) > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association > between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is > on. The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used > for swap. /etc/fstab - Jonas --

Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file

2019-06-14 Thread Erwan David
/etc/fstab Le 14/06/2019 à 13:10, Richard Owlett a écrit : > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association > between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is > on. The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used > for swap. > > TIA > >

Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file

2019-06-14 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 14.06.19 06:10, Richard Owlett wrote: > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association > between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The > file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap. Easier than looking in /etc/fstab

Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file

2019-06-14 Thread john doe
On 6/14/2019 1:10 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association > between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. > The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap. > > TIA > > Maybe: '/etc/fsta

Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file

2019-06-14 Thread Richard Owlett
I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap. TIA

Re: Both Abiword and OpenOffice fail to read Word file.

2010-03-03 Thread Christian Körner
On 03/03/10 16:46, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have a Word file that nither OpenOff ci nor Abiword seem to be able to > read. > > AbiWord reports, > > AbiWord cannot open file:///farhome/hendrik/books/review-me/ > Book1PropertyoftheQueen.doc. It appears to be an invalid doc

Re: Both Abiword and OpenOffice fail to read Word file.

2010-03-03 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
> I believe there's a fair chance that the strings command will extract the > useful stuff. If not, there are free (legal) viewers for Word and Excel > files that may run under Wine, I've never tried. No need for WINE. Can always just upload to google docs. -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Both Abiword and OpenOffice fail to read Word file.

2010-03-03 Thread Joe
Hendrik Boom wrote: I have a Word file that nither OpenOff ci nor Abiword seem to be able to read. AbiWord reports, AbiWord cannot open file:///farhome/hendrik/books/review-me/ Book1PropertyoftheQueen.doc. It appears to be an invalid document OpenOffice says, General Error, General input

Re: Both Abiword and OpenOffice fail to read Word file.

2010-03-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 10:46:46 Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have a Word file that nither OpenOff ci nor Abiword seem to be able to > read. > > AbiWord reports, > > AbiWord cannot open file:///farhome/hendrik/books/review-me/ > Book1PropertyoftheQueen.doc. It appears to b

Both Abiword and OpenOffice fail to read Word file.

2010-03-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have a Word file that nither OpenOff ci nor Abiword seem to be able to read. AbiWord reports, AbiWord cannot open file:///farhome/hendrik/books/review-me/ Book1PropertyoftheQueen.doc. It appears to be an invalid document OpenOffice says, General Error, General input/output error. (that&#

Re: Word file

2006-06-22 Thread Jason Spiro
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Re: Word file

2006-06-16 Thread cornelia . winter
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[QMR-82908]: Re: Word file

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